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Microsoft's Not So Happy Family
D.A. Zollinger writes "Reports from Redmond are that Microsoft Employees are not happy with the double delay of Windows and Office being pushed back into 2007. EETimes is reporting that some Microsoft employees are calling for the termination of several top managers Including Brian Valentine, Jim Allchin, and Steve Ballmer for the delay debacle. The report references a blog by Who da'Punk, an anonymous Microsoft employee who asks, where's the accountability for failure? So far the blog entry has generated over 350 comments from Microsoft insiders and outsiders."
Not a good day to be a fly on the wall in Ballmers office.
"I'm going to fucking kill Microsoft!"
HURL!
THUD!
SPLAT!
Actually though, chopping the head off the chicken might seem like a good idea at the time until you realise its the arsehole that becomes the new leader.
liqbase
"I've done it before and I'll do it again," he said. "Anonymity has no place at Microsoft."
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
Who da'Punk is in fact the real enemy. He wants to end the bloat at Microsoft and convert it into a lean and mean machine of productivity. Imagine what options open source would have if people in Microsoft where devoted to create great software for the users, instead of pursuing their own petty concerns in the corporate ladder. If Who da'Punk and others like him had their way, Microsoft would be user-centric, but keeping the users always within the Microsoft universe. He's planning a world of happy slaves of Microsoft. Now we are all slaves, but at least not happy. In the unsatisfaction of slaves the seeds of change lay. If everybody was contented, the chances of breaking the Microsoft monopoly would be nil (on the other side, we'd be happier and have great software, but still slaves).
So help him not. Cheer Balmer instead. He's our real ally in this fight.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
Microsoft is filling some recently vacated positions. The time to send your resume is now.
There is one thing that will get Microsoft's employee's moral back up, a Chair-Throwing-Monkey-Dance! I'm sure they'll be able to find someone who can supply.
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
And it might be seen as motivational.
Yeah, right. Motivational as in "all leave is cancelled until morale improves", or "we'll keep firing people until you ship product"
Unless it's all part of the Linux master plan...
"She's furniture with a pulse"
Doesn't that qualify as a death threat?
And your name is actually Rebecca? Wow, I'm in love... oh.
I'd challenge someone to find any application with more needless bloat than MS Office.
Azareus.
They aren't cowboys in Brokeback mountain: they look after sheep. In Europe we call that shepherds :-) They're also not gay, but bisexual, so it's the bisexual shepherd movie (has a nice ring that).
From the article:
With the convergence of high-tech media, this holiday season would have been an explosive nodal point to get Vista out for a compounded effect.
This is why MS can't seem to get it done. They have people working there who ACTUALLY talk like this! I mean, seriously, can anyone translate that sentence into English, please?
All these years we've been giving MS monopoly rent for OS software in the belief that we were paying for an exciting future
Heh, speak for yourself!
-b
myselfmusic
So what you're saying... is that Ballmer is an angry Klingon? Thanks, that makes his actions make so much more sense.
"He's soave"
I assure you he is French, not Italian.
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
ian
No, Klingons have honor.
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
Doing the former would require that he attach his name to his complaints
And you're Don Giovanni. And I'm the Magic Flute.
Ah ha! Microsoft will finally be forced to embrace Wine!
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.