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Microsoft R&D Burgled: Only Apple Products Stolen

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 8, 2013 @04:46AM from the 'cause-they-had-no-time-'cause-they-were-on-a-clock dept.

Sir Realist writes "Apparently Microsoft's R&D offices in Mountain View were broken into over the holidays: the only things stolen were Apple iPads and the theft has apparently been confirmed from a number of sources."

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as much as I'd like to make a joke... by MickyTheIdiot · 2013-01-08 04:51 · Score: 5, Informative

It was an R&D center for making Apple software, so there probably were no Surface tables around...
But it would be extremely funny if there were left out in the open for all to see.
1. Re:as much as I'd like to make a joke... by Anonymous Coward · 2013-01-08 06:11 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he discovered that Apple used Windows servers almost exclusively because Apple didn't have great server offerings.
  At some point you either have to make a truly competitive product, or realize you shouldn't be in that market.
  No, Apple used Solaris and IBM AIX. Back then, Microsoft didn't have great server offerings either. (This being Slashdot, lots of people will say it still doesn't.)