Microsoft Business Division Transition Sept. 09, 2010 E-mail to Microsoft full-time employees from Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
Sept. 9, 2010
I am writing to let you know that Stephen Elop has been offered and has accepted the job as CEO of Nokia and will be leaving Microsoft, effective immediately. Stephen leaves in place a strong business and technical leadership team, including Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene, Amy Hood and Kirill Tatarinov, all of whom will report to me for the interim.
The MBD business continues to grow and thrive, with 15 percent growth in the last quarter. It has been good to see the great response to Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, the growth of our Dynamics business and the way we have been successful in extending all our MBD products and services to the cloud. I appreciate the way that Stephen has been a good steward of the brand and business in his time here, and look forward to continuing to work with him in his new role at Nokia.
If there's any doubt that he does not act to harm US citizens, this should remove it from all those not fanatically attached to him. He's not released anything about Russia or China, which would be far more valuable and might redeem his value if he did so. The NSA will survive him as they survived Watergate.
That said, Cameron should escalate his actions from angle grinding laptops to making the information too perilous to touch. Continue until Snowden is spending a life sentence for his actions. By defending the information of an ally from a person whose interest is in a common enemy (Russia), the angle grinding was a patriotic action.
Of course, you'd rather not hear about how Snowden is wrong until you see large mushroom clouds in the distance.
The American way at least gives an opportunity for all, although not enough is shifted onto international students.
Do that, change funding to a percentage(instead of easily bypassed fixed amounts), eliminate avenues of selectivity, and perhaps things might get better here in the US.
Ideally, maybe a great portion of the people out of high school should go to a vocational school first, then go work, make some money, gain some experience, and only then at some point spend some time at university to gain a better understanding of the world
Which means you've effectively kept that part of the population from being considered as a skilled worker and thus less free to move about just because his or her score didnt meet the arbitrary minimum.
If there's a good place to do the filtering, do it with the internationals and leave the citizens unfiltered. Once the internationals are controlled in population, the remaining population of a country's citizens provide no more pressure than what is placed on primary/secondary education.
That, and online education provides an inferior environment (from teaching to material) versus on-site - and should not be made the default option for the masses.
If you have to have an admissions exam for a university, access to any university, or to secondary level education, something is wrong with the education system. Doubly so if it gives rise to the faulty concept of educational streaming(the concept of shaping people's entire lives through test scores and controls on education acccess).
Unless a provider is willing to go with a $5.99/month plan with smartphone agnostic, flat-rate, unthrottled data, it would be cheaper to stay with the bundled line plan.
Then again, the data side is based off T-Mobile's T-Zones plan which doesn't seem to care what you put on there as long as it's a phone.
"It will cease production of 7200 RPM laptop drives at the end of 2013, and just make models running at 5400 RPM."
Then it's time to move to a manufacturer that won't drop 7200 RPM drives. While it may run a bit hot, the 7200RPM 750GB Momentus XT isn't otherwise a bad drive.
If it balkanizes around NATO-defined lines(excluding Russia, China, and the non-US-controlled portions of Africa), civilized countries will have no problems with each other. Western Europe, US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the like would have no problem talking with each other.
The only loss would be the countries that end up dragging down product quality, causing job losses, and otherwise making it a Very Bad Day in every way towards the First World. Perhaps if they westernized themselves and stopped being used as means to grind down First World workers, they might have a chance.
The whole irony in this is that Snowden would end up causing the greatest loss in freedom in the name of trying to cause a modest increase.
They make things less interconnected, in the name of "uncovering" something already well known in a proper level of detail.
The sooner and the bloodier that the UK takes the Guardian to task (via the US), the better. Same goes for anyone else who thinks of releasing such information - until it becomes something that nobody wants to have on their hands.
Even if there were some questionable rendering of the facts, Mr. Daisey seems to be spot on about Chinese factories. China has only proven - since the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th 1989 - that they are only interested in giving favor and freedom to multinationals while denying freedom to their own people.
That said: It seems like the factories in China would rather smear anyone who questions their practices, and hope that their US-side clients come to the rescue if it goes global. Failing that, they go to the PR firm that takes on the worst of the worst - Burson Marsteller - in order to whitewash their image.
(of course, elventy million would nuke my karma to a crisp, but doing as the topic says would end the damage to various citizens caused by these leaks)
I'm only suggesting that going with a particular mode of work (temporary, contract, or full-time direct) is to be chosen separate from the job itself - and in a manner where the employer must compete.
The US government can tax, it can imprison people, it can spy on people, and it can kill people. But it can't force businesses to operate in the US; it simply lacks the power.
Again, you underestimate them - they can make it very painful not to set up shop in the US. It can do whatever it wants, courtesy of its ascent to being a hyperpower. On the other hand, there are people(like yourself) that would rather see the US submit to the world - especially if it means that you shackle the government and its citizens.
That, and you think that a business should be elevated over all other parties.
No, I simply don't start the business at all.... But not starting the business increases the number of "duressed/desperate people" because the jobs for them do not exist at all.
Then a competitor would start one. You seem to act like you're entitled to perfect conditions at the expense of others.
Employees are never "obligated" to go with a particular kind of employment.
Only if it isn't a condition of accepting the job or continuing work. While it may take out leverage that you might *want*, it adds freedom in the same way Right to Work adds freedom.
Furthermore, where your "sympathies" lie doesn't matter; you can't force or bludgeon business to operate in the US.
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Microsoft Business Division Transition
Sept. 09, 2010
E-mail to Microsoft full-time employees from Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
Sept. 9, 2010
I am writing to let you know that Stephen Elop has been offered and has accepted the job as CEO of Nokia and will be leaving Microsoft, effective immediately. Stephen leaves in place a strong business and technical leadership team, including Chris Capossela, Kurt DelBene, Amy Hood and Kirill Tatarinov, all of whom will report to me for the interim.
The MBD business continues to grow and thrive, with 15 percent growth in the last quarter. It has been good to see the great response to Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010, the growth of our Dynamics business and the way we have been successful in extending all our MBD products and services to the cloud. I appreciate the way that Stephen has been a good steward of the brand and business in his time here, and look forward to continuing to work with him in his new role at Nokia.
Please join me in wishing Stephen well.
Steve
Given that Microsoft all but ensured that it would be an acquisition, Elop was the person who burnt the platform.
Shame that they took over Nokia and bastardized it to be an unremarkable Windows Phone platform.
While the people doing the releasing of documents will find themselves as accessories to whatever crimes the Snowden gets convicted of in court.
All that while the persons that helped locate, prosecute, and convict will be the true patriots - without any fear of retaliation.
If there's any doubt that he does not act to harm US citizens, this should remove it from all those not fanatically attached to him. He's not released anything about Russia or China, which would be far more valuable and might redeem his value if he did so. The NSA will survive him as they survived Watergate.
That said, Cameron should escalate his actions from angle grinding laptops to making the information too perilous to touch. Continue until Snowden is spending a life sentence for his actions. By defending the information of an ally from a person whose interest is in a common enemy (Russia), the angle grinding was a patriotic action.
Of course, you'd rather not hear about how Snowden is wrong until you see large mushroom clouds in the distance.
If someone wants it bad enough, they will get it. Not only does it apply to cryptography, it also applies to traitors like Edward Snowden.
He will be found, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned.
Either they go to a very small subset (ASVAB) or have very little relevance (SAT/ACT).
If you get a bad score on those, you can recover from those much faster than one can from streamed education.
The American way at least gives an opportunity for all, although not enough is shifted onto international students.
Do that, change funding to a percentage(instead of easily bypassed fixed amounts), eliminate avenues of selectivity, and perhaps things might get better here in the US.
That's one country that would rather have as few people educated and able to move internationally.
High selectivity/streaming in admissions/etc. only makes things worse in the long run.
Ideally, maybe a great portion of the people out of high school should go to a vocational school first, then go work, make some money, gain some experience, and only then at some point spend some time at university to gain a better understanding of the world
Which means you've effectively kept that part of the population from being considered as a skilled worker and thus less free to move about just because his or her score didnt meet the arbitrary minimum.
If there's a good place to do the filtering, do it with the internationals and leave the citizens unfiltered. Once the internationals are controlled in population, the remaining population of a country's citizens provide no more pressure than what is placed on primary/secondary education.
That, and online education provides an inferior environment (from teaching to material) versus on-site - and should not be made the default option for the masses.
If you have to have an admissions exam for a university, access to any university, or to secondary level education, something is wrong with the education system. Doubly so if it gives rise to the faulty concept of educational streaming(the concept of shaping people's entire lives through test scores and controls on education acccess).
With that kind of cowardice, you could black out the nearly the entire document just for someone's sensitivies.
Now if that information is released, that would be telling.
Unless a provider is willing to go with a $5.99/month plan with smartphone agnostic, flat-rate, unthrottled data, it would be cheaper to stay with the bundled line plan.
Then again, the data side is based off T-Mobile's T-Zones plan which doesn't seem to care what you put on there as long as it's a phone.
"It will cease production of 7200 RPM laptop drives at the end of 2013, and just make models running at 5400 RPM."
Then it's time to move to a manufacturer that won't drop 7200 RPM drives. While it may run a bit hot, the 7200RPM 750GB Momentus XT isn't otherwise a bad drive.
If it balkanizes around NATO-defined lines(excluding Russia, China, and the non-US-controlled portions of Africa), civilized countries will have no problems with each other. Western Europe, US, Canada, Japan, Australia, and the like would have no problem talking with each other.
The only loss would be the countries that end up dragging down product quality, causing job losses, and otherwise making it a Very Bad Day in every way towards the First World. Perhaps if they westernized themselves and stopped being used as means to grind down First World workers, they might have a chance.
The whole irony in this is that Snowden would end up causing the greatest loss in freedom in the name of trying to cause a modest increase.
They make things less interconnected, in the name of "uncovering" something already well known in a proper level of detail.
The sooner and the bloodier that the UK takes the Guardian to task (via the US), the better. Same goes for anyone else who thinks of releasing such information - until it becomes something that nobody wants to have on their hands.
When this is something backed by someone that doesn't use deliberate exclusion as a business model, perhaps it might mean something.
Until then, it's a parlor trick.
Given the evidence behind the national security concerns, the sale of IBM PCD should have been rightfully blocked.
If they're just dropping the online retail to reserve themselves for middlemen, then what's the exact point of things?
They're not going out of business, just avoiding online retail.
Even if there were some questionable rendering of the facts, Mr. Daisey seems to be spot on about Chinese factories. China has only proven - since the Tiananmen Massacre on June 4th 1989 - that they are only interested in giving favor and freedom to multinationals while denying freedom to their own people.
That said:
It seems like the factories in China would rather smear anyone who questions their practices, and hope that their US-side clients come to the rescue if it goes global. Failing that, they go to the PR firm that takes on the worst of the worst - Burson Marsteller - in order to whitewash their image.
If the quality is any bit respectable, it'll just mean more detailed selfies on imgur.
(of course, elventy million would nuke my karma to a crisp, but doing as the topic says would end the damage to various citizens caused by these leaks)
No, nobody is starting these businesses.
That's your presumption.
Huh?
I'm only suggesting that going with a particular mode of work (temporary, contract, or full-time direct) is to be chosen separate from the job itself - and in a manner where the employer must compete.
The US government can tax, it can imprison people, it can spy on people, and it can kill people. But it can't force businesses to operate in the US; it simply lacks the power.
Again, you underestimate them - they can make it very painful not to set up shop in the US. It can do whatever it wants, courtesy of its ascent to being a hyperpower. On the other hand, there are people(like yourself) that would rather see the US submit to the world - especially if it means that you shackle the government and its citizens.
That, and you think that a business should be elevated over all other parties.
No, I simply don't start the business at all. ...
But not starting the business increases the number of "duressed/desperate people" because the jobs for them do not exist at all.
Then a competitor would start one. You seem to act like you're entitled to perfect conditions at the expense of others.
Employees are never "obligated" to go with a particular kind of employment.
Only if it isn't a condition of accepting the job or continuing work. While it may take out leverage that you might *want*, it adds freedom in the same way Right to Work adds freedom.
Furthermore, where your "sympathies" lie doesn't matter; you can't force or bludgeon business to operate in the US.
You underestimate the US Government.
Given that disclosure is also at the terms of the payer, you also get less transparency versus independent disclosure.