[Meme] A Lot More Than Technical Debt
With interest rates on loans being notoriously high, why would Microsoft take so much more in loans while firing tens of thousands of its own workers? Unless...
The face-saving by Waggener Edstrom should always be expected. Lying to journalists and editing Wikipedia is their job (they do even worse things, such as bribing people). Companies use PR firms as communication proxies. This way they can also, as a fallback strategy, claim they "misspoke" when they blatantly lie or get caught in a major lie.