Yup, same “hide it behind a wall of babble” strategy. With a key difference: what is being hidden.

Trump typically uses this strategy to conceal outrageous claims, like this:

by the way and if she gets the pick, if she gets the pick, her judges, nothing you can do folks, although the Second Amendment people there is I don’t know but

He can’t say “if Clinton gets elected, please start a civil war” in the open, right? So he hides it behind babble.

Davaluri, though? He’s hiding… nothing. That’s the point, his comment says nothing of value. Social pressure forced Microsoft to release a public statement, and MS had three choices:

1. Tell complainers to fuck off. People get pissed, ditch MS products, margin of profit goes slightly lower.
2. Listen to the complainers’ demands. People get happy in the short term, but then really pissed since MS won’t change shit, and people hate to be lied to.
3. Say nothing. Complainers get louder and louder.

He picked #3, but disguised it as #2.