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Re: [News] Microsoft Program Manager Jumps Ship

  • Subject: Re: [News] Microsoft Program Manager Jumps Ship
  • From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:32:33 +0200
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm Leaving Microsoft

Good for you Roy.

>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | A number of my projects in Vista got cut and then my post-Vista work
> | was continually held up but the whims of other teams.
> `----
>
> http://mediacenter.mattgoyer.com/archives/2006/08/23/1170
>
> There's a pattern here.

There is : that you're a fool. And I quote:

,----
| To be clear, I am not leaving because Microsoft isnt a great
| place (it is, I love my team and my co-workers, I really
| going to miss them but thankfully Ive made some great life
| long friends. However, Microsoft is just no longer the place for me and
| where I am in my career), I am not leaving because Windows Vista is
| going to suck (its not we have tons of people putting their
| heart and soul into it and I prefer using it at home than Media Center
| 2005), I am not leaving because we dontt support DVB-x/feature
| XYZ/etc (do your homework on the size of those markets and compare them
| to the markets we are pursuing, then figure out what the technical
| effort is to enter those markets and figure out how many people we have)
| and I am not leaving because Im an idiot (though it would be
| funny if I did).
`----

from the links found here (all first page btw, and so the most relevant
to Roytoy#s conspiracy theory):

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&num=10&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=I%E2%80%99m+Leaving+Microsoft


,----
| The bad news for those of you hoping to see the back of me for good is
| that I'm leaving Microsoft in the UK, only to join the mothership:
| Microsoft Corporation, over in "rainy" Redmond.
`----

One was 1.5 years old.

,----
| This one was just a joke:
| 
| The real reason Im leaving Microsoft
| 
| Cause Stephen Toub, one of Microsoft's real humans, doesn't like April 1
`----


This one was from 1999:

,----
| FW: I'm leaving Microsoft and joining a startup
`----


One is because, err, hes actually Joining MS:

,----
| I'll tell you a major reason I'm leaving. Microsoft called.
`----


Basically, it goes on.






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