Microsoft asked an important question. The answers were ingenious

Technology creates problems and opportunities, perhaps to the same extent.

Many, however, are simply not equipped to deal with the mistakes that technology prompts them to make.

A fear surely shared by almost everyone is the distracted and mistaken response to an email.

How are you supposed to say you didn’t mean it? How are you supposed to fix what you did?

I am indebted – as I hope you will – to Microsoft for asking these questions and instigating the ingenuity of the world to answer them.

The beautiful Twitter account of the company posed like that: “You just accidentally clicked ‘reply all’ on a department-wide email. What’s your next step? “

Some of his subscribers have naturally reached a version of “my account has been hacked”.

I don’t know how wise that would be, given that companies are now used to analyzing who did the hack, when and how.

Still, a fearless respondent mused, “Upload nsfw photos and report your account hacked.” Another even suggested that you find a hacker to hack your account.

Oh, I’m not sure that would help entirely.

Then, however, came a few more insightful – and fun – suggestions.

This by Microsoft programmer Miguel de Icaza: “Encourage constructive feedback by responding to all comments, turn pointed remarks into an opportunity to grow as an organization, and do a full root cause and post-mortem analysis on what brought us here with everyone. on CC. “

Really ingenious. It also shows the work of a committed corporate soldier.

Some have suggested that you recall your email. But it only works if no one has read it already.

Soon Microsoft’s partners began to participate. The Dell XPS account Free: “Activate your ‘Out of office’ automatic reply.”

The ideas kept coming in. “Format Microsoft exchange servers”, suggested Aniruddha, the self-proclaimed founder of Religion 295 !, 295A and 295ER.

Many have surely experienced this problem, so constructive suggestions have poured in.

Put a minute – even two minutes – late on the delivery of your emails, for example. One person admitted that they were six minutes behind on their Outlook. What kind of emails do they send?

Here’s one that’s thoughtful: Calm down, because responding to all to one email isn’t a problem, unless one misguided person answers all of your response to all of you.

More than one person suggested sending another ministry-wide email asking to be removed from this mailing list. Another reflected: “Respond to all with the message that this is a safety test and those who answer all will have to undergo mandatory safety training for 2 days.”

Everyone wanted to participate. Mattress company arose to suggest that he is familiar with this problem.

Before you wonder why I scoured this Twitter channel to witness people’s responses, what is clear is that many feel like this particular nightmare is a nightmare they could fall into.

One Twitter user said they had just experienced it: “Someone accidentally sent an email on Friday, with a company-wide attachment. I don’t know the exact number, but we are over 50,000 in the world. Look at all the ID10T answering all. Was great. “

It’s the weird thing about responding to everyone by email. Sometimes I wonder if it would be helpful to have an automatic pop-up saying, “Are you sure you want to answer ALL? “

It would surely save you a lot of blushes and only cost a few seconds of your cogitative life.

Microsoft’s Twitter account is a lot more free and entertaining than, say, Apple’s. Apples Twitter account has 6.6 million subscribers. They are desperately waiting for Apple to issue its first corporate tweet since 2011.

How not to admire Microsoft’s attempt to get its followers to help each other to cope with a moment of crisis?

Then again, a number of people have suggested that the sender of the Reply All simply resign.

What type of companies do they work for?