David,
Are you sure the people you are referring to are MS staff? These newsgroups
are per-to-peer, and the vast majoeity of replies come from users who have
absolutely nothing to do with MS, other than using their products - and, of
course, there's no rule that they have to be native English speakers!
Even if you are referring to those rare exceptions where the posters are
indeed MS staff (who distinctly sign their posts as such), what is your
problem? I don't know about you, but I would certainly prefer a good answer
in a foreigner's English to a bad one from a professor of English at Oxford.
I've seen many posters receiving a thank you note for a good answer, and no
complaints on the language, so I believe I'm not alone in this. At the end
of the day, IT skills and language skills are two different things.
Nikos Yannacopoulos
"david epsom dot com dot au" <david@epsomdotcomdotau> wrote in message
news:uEnpJ$cWEHA.716@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I can't help but notice that some of the MS staff posting in these groups
> use a different variant of English than I use. Is MS transferring help
desk
> positions overseas? Or just assigning foreign language nationals here to
> improve their command of colloquial American English? Or is that typical
of
> junior level IT staff in the USA?
> (david)
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