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Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the less-talk-from-the-depths dept.

SJasperson writes "A few weeks ago Mini-Microsoft decided to stop tweaking his corporate masters, having won the astounding victory of getting free towels returned to the locker rooms in Redmond. Now uber-blogger Scoble is moving on to work with a podcasting startup, having apparently tired of his supposed role as Vista evangelist and self-appointed corporate revolutionary. The company still has 3,000 bloggers left, but Microsoft has apparently figured out how to keep them safely within the rules, blogging about the wonders of product renaming and coming features instead of anything that might challenge the party line. There's a lesson here for those starry-eyed adolescents who think the power of the blog is going to triumph over the power of the boardroom."

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  1. hey scoble by FudRucker · · Score: 0, Troll

    its no fun being a shill when no money comes in from it...

    --
    Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
  2. M$ by _Griphin_ · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't get how anyone can boast about a company called Microsoft which steals their ideas (isn't Windows based upon piracy?!?), then again I don't work for Microsoft, and never would want to. Bad enuff I run Windows as is.

  3. They're right Scoble by TehBeer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Robert, if you can see this,

    Write a book about your experiences there, and sell the movie rights. Don't leave out the part about the chair throwing and Lukovsky's testimony.
    Your true story would make Anti-Trust look like a remake of a 70's disco film.
    They must have had him sign a powerful NDA, but I'm sure Robert can find a way around that.

  4. Re:The summary is trolling! by /dev/trash · · Score: 0, Troll

    Drive a damned car, and you won't have to worry about taking a shower. Sheesh is MS pay THAT bad?

  5. Proof that Slashdot is a poor source for news by George41 · · Score: 1, Troll
    If you wanted to prove that people who post at /. see the world through wildly distorted glasses this would be the post to point them to. One only has to read Robert's blog to know that he is not leaving because he is upset with Microsoft or tired of promoting its products. He's tired of living so far from his son. That's probably something that a lot of the children who make up the mainstream of /. have trouble understanding.

    No one knows how many bloggers work at Microsoft. It's clearly a lot more than 3,000 which is just the number of blogs at the msdn and technet blog sites. There arsofties blogging at MSN Spaces, Blogger and a host of other hosting sites as well as personally own hosting computers. And of course anyone who reads much knows that a lot of bloggers besides Robert are critical of the company at time in their blogs. But facts like that don't fit the /. mentality.

    Blogging has made and continues to make a lot of changes at Microsoft. BTW can you name another company with as many bloggers? I doubt it.

  6. The lesson learned... by linefeed0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...it's a good idea to work somewhere other than Microsoft!