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Microsoft Loses Key Engineer to Google

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the google-os-rumors-aflutter dept.

galdur writes "Microsoft Watch reports Marc Lucovsky, one of Microsoft's key Windows architects has defected to Google. His confidence in Microsoft's ability to ship software seems to have waned, too. Some hypothesize Google working on an OS but in the wake of Google's inroads into Ajax tech applications (GMail, Suggest, Maps), I think Google may have other plans for the chief software architect for Microsoft's .Net My Services ("Hailstorm")" CT Many users are reporting 404s on the Microsoft Watch article, but its working fine for others. Hopefully they'll fix their server soon.

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  1. Blog entry is gone already? by Eric+Smith · · Score: 1, Funny

    Anybody save a copy?

  2. I wonder by Ravenscall · · Score: 4, Funny

    How many Shadowrunners it took to pull off that one.

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    1. Re:I wonder by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hah! MS campus _is_ up in the Redmond Barrens after all, right near Seattle ;)

  3. Re:Is it ethical? by Eternally+optimistic · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure this gentlemen acquired enough ethics at Microsoft, so this will not be an issue.

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  4. Heh... by the_skywise · · Score: 3, Funny

    Buck Fill...

    Man, what'd they use to call it when Microsoft did it to their competitors... There was an actual term associated with it when they'd drive up to their competition in Limo's and try to hire away their best staff for million dollar salaries... (like they did to Borland)

    And I end with a quote from Oliver of Bloom County:
    "Hackers don't handle obsolescence well."

  5. What's the penalty for that crime? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    He was charged with building the Windows NT executive, kernel, Win32 run-time and other key elements of the operating system. NT was the precursor to Windows Server.

    Seems like 20 to life might be appropriate for this bit of malfeasance.

  6. You know it's bad when... by Khyber · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even the Borg themselves can't keep ahold of their own collective.

    All your drones are belong to Google.

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  7. for clarification... by The-Perl-CD-Bookshel · · Score: 3, Funny
    A 16-year Microsoft veteran, Lucovsky was one of a handful of "Distinguished Engineers" at Microsoft. He is credited as one of the core dozen engineers that came from Digital Equipment Corp. to Microsoft and built the Windows NT operating system. He was charged with building the Windows NT executive, kernel, Win32 run-time and other key elements of the operating system. NT was the precursor to Windows Server.

    Windows NT: thank god he's not from the Darkside of the Force...

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  8. Great by motox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now google will start crashing too.

  9. Re:You may have heard of Mark... by stud9920 · · Score: 5, Funny

    his discontempt ? So he actually admired their practices ?

  10. What's a "Google style lunch"? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Waiter:What'll it be?
    You: 25,600 possible answers.
    Waiter:Come again?
    You: About 1,190,000 possible answers. ...

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  11. Re:You may have heard of Mark... by jaylee7877 · · Score: 2, Funny

    errr... discontent. It sounded right in my head, I promise, but then a lot of things sound right in my head until my mouth speaks them...

  12. Re:You may have heard of Mark... by rifftide · · Score: 5, Funny

    And if their bug tracking tool hadn't been a 16-bit app, they might've reported even more bugs.

  13. Re:Predictions of Doom by Golias · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't wait to hear all the predictions of how this is the end of Microsoft. Relax folks...

    Ooo! Does this mean we can start calling Microsoft "beleagured"?

    What fun! It's like FUD Karma!

    "Hmmm... I suppose you could go with an Exchange Server, but I hear Google plans to come up with a new OS which will probably drive Microsoft out of business, and then what kind of support will you be left with? Let me show you some Open Source alternatives for your mail server which you know you can depend on..."

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  14. Re:Ohh Yes another OS! by Anita+Coney · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I had to choose between running a current BeOS or ever having sex again, I'd choose BeOS. It was simply astonishing.

    But then again, being a geek, any chance of me actually having sex would be next to impossible. So I really wouldn't be giving up much.

    Still, BeOS was fantastic.

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  15. Re:Google OS by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't think that the limit is the sky. I think the limit is the fact that Microsoft OS is installed on over 90% of world's desktops.

    Yes, but look at the default Desktop background.

    The limit is the sky.

  16. Re:Google OS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    1: Kill yourself
    2: ???
    3: Profit!

  17. Key Engineer? by Hatta · · Score: 4, Funny

    So that's the jerk who invented the windows key!

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  18. Re:Predictions of Doom by Money+for+Nothin' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ooo! Does this mean we can start calling Microsoft "beleagured"?

    "It is official; Slashdot confirms: Windows is dying"

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already-beleagured Windows community when Microsoft-Watch.com confirmed that Windows mindshare has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1% of all lead developers..."
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  19. It's not a bug, it's a feature! by Shazow · · Score: 2, Funny

    *Few weeks later*

    "Oooo, IE7 is out and Windows is automatically updating, so exciting!"

    *2 hours and 4 reboots later*

    "Hmm, strange, it wont connect to anything Google-related." :D

    - shazow

  20. ARGH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    themselv's

    Ahh... it hurts my eyes...

  21. Re:Google OS by drxray · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, great! Does this mean I could run bittorrent(/emule/irc dcc server) on google's machines instead of mine? Download it when it's done... Seeding would no longer be a chore :)

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  22. Re:You may have heard of Mark... by OldManAndTheC++ · · Score: 2, Funny
    Now see here, young man... 'Misunderestimate' is a perfectly cromulent word. :)=

    'Cromulent.' Er, yes. Right. Thank you for embiggening my vocabulary!

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  23. Re:MS couldn't get away with it by cpghost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course MS could get away with it. All it takes is a low random probability of failure to access Google (say, 5% or so):

    /* google poison section*/
    if (random() < 0.05 && detect_domain(GOOGLE)) {
    do_some_nasty_things();
    }
    proceed_normally();
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  24. Re:Ohh Yes another OS! by cpghost · · Score: 2, Funny

    But then again, being a geek, any chance of me actually having sex would be next to impossible.

    As a geek, you should have read RFC 696969: "Interpersonal Communications Protocol v3" to start with, esp. paying close attention to the "flirting" section, which specifies the "handshaking protocol to initiate sex."

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  25. Will the REAL AJAX please stand up? by darekana · · Score: 2, Funny


    I found him. The ancient and elusive Ajax of yore.

    Don't let that designer fool steal his fame!

    Thank you.

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