Judge Clears the Way for Google's Microsoft Hire

MarkEst1973 was one of the first to write to tell us MSNBC is reporting that a Judge has cleared the way for Google to hire former Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee. The hire does come with several limitations and Lee was also found to have 'misled his former employer and taken advantage of confidential Microsoft information'. This comes as a follow up to the original story in which Microsoft sued Google in order to prevent the hire. Tom Burt was quoted as saying that "Dr. Lee is going to be the highest-paid HR manager ever."

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Meanwhile...

[Anonymous Coward]

would you want to be this chair?

Re:HR Manager

[ZakuSage]

I, for one, welcome our new Google HR Manager overlord.

His first order of business:

[Anonymous Crowhead]

Implement stack ranking for Google.

Funny

[user43]

Microsoft, your kung-fu no good!

Re:Funny

[flacco]

Microsoft, your kung-fu no good!

ahhh, grasshoppah, you have yet to face my Flying Chairs stance!

editing?

[dotpavan]

MarkEst1973 was one of the first to write to tell us MSNBC is reporting that a Judge has cleared the way for Google to hire former Microsoft employee Kai-Fu Lee.

am I the first to type to tell Slashdot this article is reporting that someone has eaten all the puncutation marks and hence we were runing out and didnt know how to form a second sentence and so this marathon keeps going with great editorial skills which brings me to the point that please help this sentence keep going for the benefit of mankind....

The matrix

[chadamir]

Balmer: I know kai fu.

Schmidt: [eyeing him, hand on chin] Show me

Re:thought so.

[chphilli]

My response (emphasis mine):

Anyone else find this just a little ironic?

Ballmer drunk at Google HQ? "Lee I love you"

[tenzig_112]

From Jilted Ballmer Threatens Google's Life, Earns Restraining Order

Unfortunately, the heartsick CEO shows no sign of moving on or adhering to the strict restraining order issued earlier this week. According to eyewitnesses, Ballmer showed up at Google's headquarters on Monday afternoon with a bundle of wilted flowers in one hand and an open bottle of an unidentified intoxicant in the other.

For the poor intern who discovered the Microsoft CEO peering through windows and shouting up at the third floor offices for Lee, it must have been both thrilling and stultifyingly creepy. Thankfully, security cameras captured the whole thing:

Ballmer: I'm here to see Kai-Fu Lee.

Intern: Mr. Lee left for the day, sir.

Ballmer: Come on, I know he's here. Just let me talk to him. I just want to make things right.

Intern: He's unavailable at the moment. I can take a message, though. What'd you want me to ask him?

Ballmer: Ask him this: When did you stop loving me?

Intern: Mr. Ballmer, you're drunk.

Ballmer: OK, I'm not going home alone. [addressing the gathering crowd of Google employees] Who wants to work at Microsoft? I can double your salary.

Intern: Um, can you pay me in Google stock?

Ballmer: I'm leaving now. [passes out]

Friends say Ballmer's position at the top of the world's largest and most established technology company has left him feeling isolated, defensive and perhaps more than a little jealous at being beaten again and again by younger, more agile rivals.

"Microsoft is not a young company, and I recognize that," said Ballmer in a late night voice mail to Lee's new office. "I want you to know that Microsoft can still do those things you like, those special business maneuvers. Eric doesn't know you like I do. Sure, Google looks sexy with its flexibility and high profile innovations, but before long you'll get bored with that, too, and want to move to the next large-cap tech company, and then what will you be? A whore! Oh, God. I'm sorry. I didn't mean that- well, I did, but not that way. I love you. [click]"

Re:HR Manager

[craXORjack]

Maybe the 'confidential Microsoft information' he took advantage of was how to steal employees from competitors!

I predict:

[ewe2]

Ballmer will be killing Google just about .... now.

Re:HR Manager

[inode_buddha]

Ah, but you forget that there is a Beowulf cluster of moderators. They're probably in Soviet Russia ogling Natalie Portman.

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