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Microsoft Employees Critical Of Their Employer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-is-not-well dept.

bonch writes "BusinessWeek is running an article on internal unrest at Microsoft from their own employees. 'Once the dream workplace of tech's highest achievers, it is suffering key defections to Google and elsewhere... Much of the sharpest criticism comes from within. Dozens of current and former employees are criticizing -- in BusinessWeek interviews, court testimony, and personal blogs -- the way the company operates internally.' In related news, Steve Ballmer has pledged to make changes inside Microsoft to avoid the embarrassingly long development cycle of Vista, including a 'revamping of the engineering and the processes.' Is it too late?"

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  1. ' Is it too late?' by John+Hasler · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can only hope.

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  2. Get Back to Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a MSFT stockholder. All you layabouts, get off your duffs and get back to work. Whaddya want, more free Cokes? Give me a break.

    You want to be smurfy, get good enough to work for the research arm and then we'll talk. Otherwise be thankful you aren't stuck in a cubicle at Symantec or somewhere lame.

    Youse don't know how good youse got it.

  3. The chair has the floor by RickMuller · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chairs will continue to fly until morale improves.

  4. Re:Avoiding the question(s) by gclef · · Score: 5, Funny
    To quote from that link:

    Vista will be out next year. Vista has never been delayed. I mean, we had earlier conceptualizations, but the thing that is Vista is on its track.


    Indeed. There are no tanks in Baghdad.

  5. How many Microserfs does it take... by saddino · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to change a lightbulb?

    Seven.

    One Project Manager...to write up the requirements.
    One MBU Intern...to report on how Apple engineers did it in Tiger.
    One Marketing Droid...to call CNet and tell Ina Fried that it'll be changed in an innovative and exciting new way in Windows Vista.
    One Software Engineer...to begin work on it and then take a job at Google implementing Lightbulb Beta.
    One CEO...to throw his chair around his office when he finds out.
    One PR Flack...to explain to Bob Enderle how "although the lightbulb won't be changed in Windows Vista, it will be released in 2007 as a separate, more refined technology."

    And Paul Thurrot, who will receive a private demostration of the lightbulb, devote one week on SuperSite explaining that Apple's lightbulb in Tiger is dimmer, Google's Lightbulb Beta is "limited," and MS's solution, while late, is indeed superior and "Highly recommended."