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Microsoft's Not So Happy Family

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the managers-doing-their-jobs-asking-a-bit-much dept.

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."

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  1. Ballmer Replies! by zaguar · · Score: 5, Funny
    In other news, Steve Ballmer vowed to "fucking kill" all anonymous Microsoft employees.

    "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."
  2. Make no mistake by OpenSourced · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
  3. Terminate? by dascandy · · Score: 5, Funny
    some Microsoft employees are calling for the termination of several top managers

    Doesn't that qualify as a death threat?

  4. Re:Headless chicken by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Ballmer could hit his targets, he wouldn't be in this fix.

  5. Re:Headless chicken by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds to me like Microsoft is one of the safer places to be, if you're a bug.

    If you could get rid of bugs by throwing chairs at them, Ballmer could have shipped Vista years ago.