Unexpected.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:22 pmI've lost the link to it but I just read a rather interesting article about Vista.
The gist of the story being that a lead programer on the Vista project resigned because Microsoft shipped the Op system before it was complete and functional. This of course wouldn't be news to anyones who's familiar with how Microsoft generally does business. What was news worthy is that someone in a senior position at Microsoft had enough ethical backbone to resign over it. It has long been held that one of the standard requirements to be an employee of microsoft was corrective surgery to remove any trace of moral fiber. Microsoft vice president in Charge of personel April Marlin said in a leaked memo that this sets a bad example and that immediate and strict measures must be enacted to ensure that no other employees be allowed to developany manner of undesirable traits such as good business practices. There was a general fear that programmers at microsoft might discover that there is life outside their cube farms and empathise with said life. This would lead to a loss of revenue if those programmers chose to try and interact with the rest of society. The loss of revenue would be counted in the billions should programmers for example discover personal hygene is more than wearing a car air freshener around their necks.
In other news...
April Fools.
The gist of the story being that a lead programer on the Vista project resigned because Microsoft shipped the Op system before it was complete and functional. This of course wouldn't be news to anyones who's familiar with how Microsoft generally does business. What was news worthy is that someone in a senior position at Microsoft had enough ethical backbone to resign over it. It has long been held that one of the standard requirements to be an employee of microsoft was corrective surgery to remove any trace of moral fiber. Microsoft vice president in Charge of personel April Marlin said in a leaked memo that this sets a bad example and that immediate and strict measures must be enacted to ensure that no other employees be allowed to developany manner of undesirable traits such as good business practices. There was a general fear that programmers at microsoft might discover that there is life outside their cube farms and empathise with said life. This would lead to a loss of revenue if those programmers chose to try and interact with the rest of society. The loss of revenue would be counted in the billions should programmers for example discover personal hygene is more than wearing a car air freshener around their necks.
In other news...
April Fools.
