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Youngest Software Executive is Three Years Old
rkt writes " Times of India reports a three year old kid who has been "certified" and recogonized as the "youngest software executive" in the world by organizations like Microsoft, CNN and CNBC. With the news
about Comdex not letting in kids below 18, and with Corel mentioning
age factor in the EULA, it seems that computer industry is still unaware of how deep computers have penetrated. Computing is no more a symbol of western world, nor are the users always 40 year old executives. Internet has brought about lots of changes, younger customer base is just one of them. "
Wow, that's adorable. I guess I can't rank on MS for too much of a publicity stunt, this one IS adorable. I also can guess that Microsoft can use some good publicity these days.
I wonder how quickly the Child Labor "saviors" will jump to protect Microsoft "exploiting" this young child and the US pressuring Thailand to pressure MS Thai on child labor abuses.
Oh well, it's good to see a youngster building up a good resume at such a young age... too many people wait until 15 or gosh, 20, to start thinking about future career goals... he'll be a fine asset to any MBA program... assuming he is "potty trained."
Alex
This is just a bad marketing ploy. If I teach my cat to play Quake, can she be the first feline software executive?
Cheers,
Rick Kirkland
He performs all the normal exec activities like making spreadsheets and powerpoint presentations! OOOOO! I want to hire him!
If anything, it goes to show what their execs do all day... put pictures in their little powerpoint presentations and send empty emails to relatives.
-Chris
I guess M$ has finally raised their certification standards. It's nice to see that being toilet trained is now a requirement.
Hey this is great, Microsoft is finally really connecting with today's youth:
"Microsoft also disclosed that it has plans to integrate young Ajay Puri's brain right into the next release of their popular Office suite of products.
'With advances in cybernetics, we can finally integrate a whole human brain into Excel,' said a Microsoft spokesman. 'We just needed one young enough to get used to being trapped inside that helpful paperclip for the rest of his life.'"
Keep up the good work!
Hotnutz.com
"QUICK, QUICK, the exectutive has wet his pants again... hurry with a fresh change of diapers or you're fired!!!!"
But aside from that, this whole thing seems like nothing like a publicity gimmick. Good for the kid to know how to use a few simple MS apps. But I fail to see the supreme genius of the kid as well as the whole reason for naming him an executive... I mean he's not actually going to anything.
To be honest I just find this analagous to those "geography whiz" or "math whiz" kids you often see on the tonight show and the like. True, it's rare that a little tyke can spout data from his head or mess around with a program, but is that genius? Rather I find it more similar to a trained monkey, just that the training began real early. It takes no real talent to memorize and recite facts or in this kid's case,use a program. He might be a bit better at learning stuff, but once you consider it all he can do is mess around with a few MS apps, and (even considering his age) how much skill does that take? And certainly knowing how to send Email and attachments by no means makes one internet saavy. Let's give the kid a few years and see if he set up a shell box or run his own domain or set up sendmail.
All it is, is hype, hype, hype, with a dash of MS propaganda. I'd go along with the general public and call it "cute", but dear god this is too lame to even merit that.