Sorry, I wasn't lambasting the community at large... I was directing my anger at the fact that Microsoft is insulated enough from the dev community that they haven't picked up on this.
Yes. Even knowing Microsoft's general marketing clumsiness, it's very impressive how out of touch they can manage to be.
Also, when they were referencing the speakers, "Lea Verou will make your dreams come true" might have looked good on paper, but in this context it was just unbearably creepy. Totally agree they need to donate some millions to inclusive causes to make up for this.
> I was directing my anger at the fact that Microsoft is insulated enough from the dev community that they haven't picked up on this.
How so? Not only were they not involved in this directly, they've posted their apology already and will take proper steps to make sure that even the smallest of parts in the smallest of regional events now have to get signed off on.
