"Personally I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well"
Microsoft rewards self-promoters; I know no fewer then a gross of talented, hard working, money making machines that Microsoft allowed to be ass-fucked by bad managers and inept coworkers.
Case in point: Alex StJohn single handedly (ok, three people...but who's counting) created DirectX in his spare time. DirectX made, and continues to make, MSFT a mountain of money. Alex was handed his head for being wildly succesful.
Well, the interesting thing to me is I was a contract tester on the HTMLHELP team in 1999...and I filed a bug report for this very exploit. So by my stopwatch we are at 5 years and counting.
FWIW, I used this exploit to nuke my boss's computer via the "Goodtimes" virus...yea, it was a hoax, but with this exploit I could run "rd/s/q \winnt" from the Preview Pane of Outlook:) If you care then write ShaneMc@microsoft.com and ask him why it wasn't fixed 5 years ago.
Yep, I tried "XFree86" and was warned away......I tried "Free Pussy" and did not get a warning at all...just a lot of porn sights.
That is why I am EX-msfty
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"Personally I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well" Microsoft rewards self-promoters; I know no fewer then a gross of talented, hard working, money making machines that Microsoft allowed to be ass-fucked by bad managers and inept coworkers. Case in point: Alex StJohn single handedly (ok, three people...but who's counting) created DirectX in his spare time. DirectX made, and continues to make, MSFT a mountain of money. Alex was handed his head for being wildly succesful.
Well, the interesting thing to me is I was a contract tester on the HTMLHELP team in 1999...and I filed a bug report for this very exploit. So by my stopwatch we are at 5 years and counting. FWIW, I used this exploit to nuke my boss's computer via the "Goodtimes" virus...yea, it was a hoax, but with this exploit I could run "rd /s/q \winnt" from the Preview Pane of Outlook :) If you care then write ShaneMc@microsoft.com and ask him why it wasn't fixed 5 years ago.
Yep, I tried "XFree86" and was warned away... ...I tried "Free Pussy" and did not get a warning at all...just a lot of porn sights.
That is why I am EX-msfty