More six months ago the internal structure at MS would have made this type of division easy, because that is more or less how the groups were divided.
About six months ago, Bill reorganized the basic structure of MS internally. No one outside noticed, because it's not something you would notice. Reorgs happen almost continuously there, but this was different - BIG!
The company is now divided into units by usage; Corporate, SOHO, Home, etc. Naturally each unit contains a piece of OS, application, internet, and so on. Much harder to divide a company along the normally thought of lines when it cuts against the internal grain!
Bill foresaw and planned for this. I'm certain he'll use this as an argument to prevent this kind of split - never mind that is exactly how the company was divided less than a year ago.
The average IT operations type job inside the Redmond Bubble is somewhere between 50K and 70K, DOE and certs., + stock and bennies. Cost of Living is not as high as the Valley or NY, but is higher than, say, the midwest (average apt. goes for $700/mo). Lots of work here too.
CHECK DICE! Lots of great jobs, easy to use. WWAAAYYY better than Monster.
The Alphaserver running NT4 at terraserver.microsoft.com takes 24 hours to boot - it takes that long to init the drive arrays. I had to boot it once.... Irish
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Does anyone else find it interesting that CNN (now owned by AOL) is reporting the breakup, and MSNBC (owned by who else?) is rebutting it? Hmmmm....
More six months ago the internal structure at MS would have made this type of division easy, because that is more or less how the groups were divided.
About six months ago, Bill reorganized the basic structure of MS internally. No one outside noticed, because it's not something you would notice. Reorgs happen almost continuously there, but this was different - BIG!
The company is now divided into units by usage; Corporate, SOHO, Home, etc. Naturally each unit contains a piece of OS, application, internet, and so on. Much harder to divide a company along the normally thought of lines when it cuts against the internal grain!
Bill foresaw and planned for this. I'm certain he'll use this as an argument to prevent this kind of split - never mind that is exactly how the company was divided less than a year ago.
The average IT operations type job inside the Redmond Bubble is somewhere between 50K and 70K, DOE and certs., + stock and bennies. Cost of Living is not as high as the Valley or NY, but is higher than, say, the midwest (average apt. goes for $700/mo). Lots of work here too.
CHECK DICE! Lots of great jobs, easy to use. WWAAAYYY better than Monster.
Irish
The Alphaserver running NT4 at terraserver.microsoft.com takes 24 hours to boot - it takes that long to init the drive arrays. I had to boot it once....
Irish