That track record suggests that when a technology is a poor fit with Microsoft's overall aims, so is the outcome.
The devil often lies in the detail of the welfare state, rather than in its overall aims.
Many people become motivated when they feel they are having an impact on the organisation and are helping to achieve the overall aims.
"Communities in some states are openly hostile or suspicious of the overall aims and goals of the program and do not see it as their own," it concluded.
Early tensions, due in part to overlapping political claims on the continent, were relaxed by the conference president's statement that overall aims were to be entirely scientific.
However, he does not believe Hodgson's appointment will have a negative impact on the overall aims in Poland and Ukraine this summer.
A 24-page statecraft blueprint obtained by the Guardian, written in the months after Isis's declaration of a caliphate, shows how deliberate the state-building exercise has been, and how central it is to its overall aims.
Calling for "some clarity" about the overall aims of the change, the committee asks bluntly whether the goal is to reduce numbers on DLA, reduce the length of time people receive it, improve its targeting "or to achieve something else".
The adverts, which appeared in yesterday's Guardian and a number of papers over the weekend, declared: "We support the overall aims of those who call on G8 leaders this year to bring an end to extreme poverty and look forward to seeing a breakthrough for Africa on the issues of trade, aid and debt.
The Government has to persuade the nation that what it is doing makes sense... in particular managements and trade unions need to be convinced that what they are required to do conforms to some overall aims to which they themselves subscribe.
For Eleanor Paton, recruitment and marketing manager at CWF Cambodia, it's not just about the individual contribution you bring: "Team players really stand out on our programme – your managers will want to keep on someone who is committed to the project's overall aims".
