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iPod Most Popular Music Player on Microsoft Campus
bblazer writes "Wired is running an article about how despite the displeasure of management, the iPod is the most popular music player on the Microsoft campus. The article states that 80% of those who have digital music players have an iPod. Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it."
I wonder if he'll make an attempt to buy Apple, and say it's his idea... It's like Coke employees drinking Pepsi.
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
Can you imagine people using the most popular product of it's kind?? I bet many of them drive HONDAS too!!!! What will Bill do?? Micorsoft doesn't compete with Apples Ipod, why would anyone at Microsoft care?
So a Microsoft manager is comparing their own products to mind-altering substances? I won't dispute that!
Quick! Put that thing away!
Happiness is like peeing yourself. Everybody can see it but only you can feel its warmth.
Why would people who spend all day on the computer have portable music players?
This comment was randomly generated by a school of piranhas chewing on the PCB of a Microsoft Natural Keyboard.
Here you have it folks. Not everyone at Microsoft is hatching ill-conceived ideas; apparently it's only the Management.
No comment!
Until microsoft makes their own branded MP3, I can't imagine the DRM fiasco that would be
Could be, or maybe they just don't want to get mugged. White iPod headphone do a great job of saying "I've got an expensive, easy to steal piece of electronics on me."
So thats why the iPod shuffle was released... Its all coming together now...
Exactly! 'Cause I know I certainly keep hearing about these muggings that happen to all these people wearing iPods in upper-middle class neighborhoods, schools, universities, and especially large, patrolled software giant campuses.
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It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
Perhaps there are a few employees that are sneaking in Knoppix CDs disguised as AOL disks.
The way Steve looked at it, this iPod was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long months, he wore this iPod up his ass and disguised himself on the Microsoft campus. Then when he left because of dysentery, he gave me the iPod. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two more months. Then, after seven months, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the iPod to you.
Make sure the wire coming out of the headphone jack is not too thick. Sometimes it hurts but I can tell you that once you use iPod, you will never go back.
With apologies to Mr.Tarantino
Free XBox, PS2
So apple invented the hard drive based mp3 player? Holy crap, that's amazing.
You got served.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
"Hey! You with the iPod, put it away right now!"
"Yes sir, sorry sir."
"Ok, just make sure it never happens again. Wait a minute... is that Knoppix running on your workstation?!? Bill, for the last time..."
"Employees have even started using different headphones to be a bit more stealthy about it."
Bullshit Alert! Nobody is going to reprimand an individual for owning and/or using a competitive product at Microsoft. Thats simply not the way things work there and its silly to suggest it.
Why the hell would they use Macs?
Everyone needs a role model.
-- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.
Microsoft is staffed entirely by cocks from what I can tell.
No wonder their software is so full of holes.
Could be, or maybe they just don't want to get mugged
Yeah, I hear that crime is a real problem on the Microsoft campus.
Besides, employees mugging each other is just an outward symptom of working for a company that's mugging everyone else.
People who say "sheeple" have about as much sophistication as an AOL user, and in fact are probably actually AOL users.
Holy cow. What an incisive summary of Microsoft's attitude, from the grandest corporate strategy all the way down to the microcosmic world of the individual employee.
Well, you'll never get a job at CBS with THAT attitude, young man!
This reminds me of an analogy that I read somewhere, perhaps from Robert X Cringely... it said there are three types of tech companies:
1) The Commandos
These guys are doing crazy new stuff in wacky situations, inventing and improvising and breaking new ground. They are happiest going where no-one has gone before, creating new products and whole new markets. If they aren't doing wild new stuff, they get bored and go somewhere else. In many ways, this is Apple.
2) The Soldiers
Soldiers go in once markets and products have been established by the commandos. They take these original ideas and solidify them, securing the area with polish and marketing glitz. In many ways, this is Microsoft.
3) The Police
Once the war is won, the Police maintain the status quo. They aren't interested in creating markets or inventing new products, they just want things to say the same and keep making cash for their organization. In many ways, this is Dell.
Now I can see holes in these descriptions already, but I do get the feeling that Microsoft isn't in the insanely great new product business. It's risky, requires rare and volatile skills, and it doesn't end up making that much money in the long run. And that last point is the key, because Microsoft really isn't a tech company. They are a money company. They make tonnes and tonnes of money, and they don't care about the other stuff.
"The innovator is usually the one who ends up going out of business. Apple is (currently) the exception."
Yes, that beleaguered company should be going out of business any decade now, I can feel it...
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel Boorstin
Your saying that working at Miscrosoft is a bit like working at MacDonalds ?
No, it's because they don't want to look gay.
A little image I fixed up in photoshop :)
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Are you saying that Microsoft employees have to share cubicles? You don't even get your own grey box to sit in?
That was you!?
You mean you were a Microsoft employee...
It's much worse when a Pepsi employee tests positive for coke....
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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23, @11:20AM
.78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by
First iPod article on slashdot.
You forgot to tell us how Bill Gates's dick tastes.