[anon987]

Question: How did the Microsoft Docs PM know about this thread on HN less than 30 minutes after it was submitted?

Can you people seriously not see that this is just a preplanned PR push?

[mynameisvlad]

Question: Does it matter? There's nothing in the site guidelines preventing someone from talking about their own product or service, and half of HN is basically just that. As long as it caters to HN readers (which a technical documentation site more than does) then why does it matter the reasoning behind the post?

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft. I was not aware of any "PR push", I stumbled upon the story on the front page.

[dend]

Yup, we generally are just happy to chat with users, regardless of where or when a thread is found.

[my123]

I've stumbled upon it while checking if the other Docs has gone the way of the dodo...

[dend]

Docs PM in question here.

Someone linked to this thread on Twitter, so I thought I'd come in and chime in with some answers to questions HN users have. We've already talked about the original docs launch on HN way back in May 2016.

[Scuds]

Eh. When bits about my company wound up on here, someone in the office forwarded it to me pretty quickly. Word gets around, especially if you're a PM whose job it is to be a public face.

[drakonka]

Does it matter? The subject matter seems very relevant to the HN userbase.