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Closing Time At Microsoft's Campus Pub
theodp writes "Just three days before the Spitfire pub was to open on Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division campus, TechFlash reports that Microsoft got cold feet and pulled the plug on the project, leaving the bar's owner and his 22 employees in the lurch. 'I am completely stunned and disappointed by the decision,' said now lease-less owner Jonathan Sposato, who's stuck with space built out as a pub, complete with a giant bar, a fireplace, and eight beer taps. (He says it wouldn't be economically viable to refit it as a restaurant.) Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos confirmed the company's sudden change of heart: 'The goal was always to create a cool gathering place for employees, but to do so in a manner that's consistent with a business environment. We decided we should do something more appropriate, and that meant not having a pub.' The new pub had been in development for more than a year."
It seemed like a good idea until they read the last two panels.
Official statement: "There's no such thing as free beer"
Their just afraid someone will get drunk and do something really, really stupid..... like install Linux!
Good Mormons know the 10 commandments, one of which is "Though shalt not Judge...".
Which one is that? Were you privy to the entire set?
Todos mis movimientos están friamente calculados
And who knows, Drunk programmers would probably improve the product... ...sure couldn't make it any worse.
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
Their just afraid someone will get drunk and do something really, really stupid..... like install Linux!
Or maybe throw some chairs?
C.
"Doctor, it's not the voices I hear in MY head, but the voices I hear in YOUR head that really frighten me."
Justification for a pub: Google doesn't have one.
Justification for pulling the plug on the pub: Google doesn't have one.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Microsoft, where neither the source nor the beer are free. ;) j/k
Put identity in the browser.
What about the Progress Bar?
See my journal, I write things there
Fool! You've bought the oldest trick in the book, the 'blame the Mormons' line. I've heard through private sources that most Microsoft execs are actually vampires Jehova's Witnesses and are worried that alcohol consumption would dilute the blood volume they need for their artificial blood cloning experiments. All of Microsoft's purported 'software development' is just a front for establishing a solid breeding stock in the Seattle area so that the vampires can repopulate the Earth when the Conflicker virus finally triggers in 2012. Think you can prove me wrong? Then answer this: if Microsoft is really a software company why is their operating system such rubbish?
We're through the looking glass, people.
Good Mormons know the 10 commandments, one of which is "Though shalt not Judge...".
And what is the other one?
Every time you wanted a drink, or a pretzel, or a peanut, or to use the bathroom did you have to pass an annoying Windows Genuine Advantage check?
You need to move on to hard drugs to explain Clippy.
Any reason why those of us who can handle alcohol shouldn't have beer at lunch?
Because others can not.
He meant morons, honest spelling mistake.
Im ok..
Look, all I said was that this bit of hallibut was good enough for jehova!
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Not even Ethel?
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That was a really sleazy move by MS.
Is there any other kind?
You can't take the sky from me...
You're a fag in email.
Scratch that.
Found it!
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
I grew up LDS...
I did a little too much of that stuff in the '60s.