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Microsoft's Treatment of Google Defectors
Miguel de Icaza (Note, this Miguel is not the Ximian developer, just someone whose small life is fulfilled by trolling under someone else's name) writes "Here is a story revealing just how threatened Microsoft is by Google. While senior partners can expect the full chair experience, some lowly staffers who are putting in their notice are being escorted off campus immediately. Why? Because they've put in their notice to join Google. In Microsoft's eyes, Google is Enemy No. 1. Anyone leaving Redmond for the search leader is a threat. Not because they'll scurry around collecting company secrets — as if Google's interested in Microsoft's '90s-era technologies. Departing employees, however, might tell other 'Softies how much better Google is. If an employee is leaving for Amazon.com or another second-tier employer which doesn't make Microsoft so paranoid, they'll probably serve out the traditional two weeks of unproductive wrapping up. So if you're planning on leaving Microsoft for Google, pack up your belongings and say goodbye to friends ahead of time. There'll be no cake and two weeks of paid slacking for you."
You're all a bunch of whores.
I love how you all sit around trashing Microsoft. Thanks to you douchebags who thought Microsoft was some "evil" monopolistic corpoartion back in the 90's, you hopped on the anti-trust bandwagon forcing them to shell out billions of dollars in wasted money to governments and whiny corporations that couldn't compete with them.
Well, you got what you wanted.
Now, Microsoft sucks and you're kicking them while they are down, in the same breath sucking on Google's cock so hard, believing their "do no evil" crap while they get rid of any last piece of privacy American's ever had.
American working culture always looks very strange to me :)
And two months sounds inflexible and costly to me, contributing to an inelastic labor force and higher unemployment. :)
The only MS product that people in the media are looking at. People who actually give a damn about productivity don't look to the media to tell them this information, and they have more to think about than the latest operating system.
Ubuntu and Google are not threats to the core business of Microsoft right now. People like to think that because they want someone - anyone - to come along and be their white knight and rescue them from... from what exactly is not well determined because it depends on who you talk to.
You have to take the blinders off and drop your dogma by the wayside before you can look at the whole situation with anythink like rationality.