Recently minted Microsoft FTE here. Have Chrome and Firefox installed, do Linux stuff (Azure Cloud Solution Architect, customer-facing position). That "caught using the competition's product" thing doesn't match my experience here for the past month. At all.
I do sorely miss using a Mac (first time after nearly 10 years that I don't have one at hand, and it's a drag on productivity for me when I need to talk to Linux servers or run some tools locally), but I don't think anyone would blink twice if I brought my own Mac to the office, even considering that I'm at an European subsidiary.
I do sorely miss using a Mac (first time after nearly 10 years that I don't have one at hand, and it's a drag on productivity for me when I need to talk to Linux servers or run some tools locally), but I don't think anyone would blink twice if I brought my own Mac to the office, even considering that I'm at an European subsidiary.