{"id":46234,"date":"2012-03-22T09:46:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46234"},"modified":"2012-03-22T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:48:16","slug":"microsoft-bans-workers-from-buying-apple-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/46234-microsoft-bans-workers-from-buying-apple-products.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft bans workers from buying Apple products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Software giant <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> has prohibited employees in the Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, and Operations Group (SMSG) from buying <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> products with company funds.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to ZDNet, who reported on an email from a top SMSG executive.<\/p>\n<p>The email,\u00a0 allegedly from chief financial officer of SMSG Alain Crozier stated, \u201cWithin SMSG we are putting in place a new policy that says that Apple products (Mac &amp; iPad) should not be purchased with company funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s SMSG division consists of more than 46,000 employees worldwide, and includes consumer and business sales staff.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s previous policies include preventing employees from using iPhones and <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> devices.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 the company started supplying workers with free Windows Phone-based devices.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2012\/03\/21\/microsoft-reportedly-prohibiting-workers-from-buying-apple-products-with-company-funds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has banned its employees from buying Apple products with company funds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":24869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10070,605,97,123],"class_list":["post-46234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-alain-crozier","tag-apple","tag-blackberry","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46236,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46234\/revisions\/46236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}