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In English, sometimes we says things like:
Can we say the same thing in Esperanto? Does it still make sense?
It's a rhetorical figure (metonymy), which is not related to any particular language, so I see no reason why it should not work in Esperanto.
See the Wikipedia Entry on Metonymy; the relationship would be 'containment', where "Microsoft" stands in for the board/CEO/... of the company itself.
