Good bye Microsoft; Pete has now left the building!
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| In 1991, I installed Windows 3 on my desktop PC at work...
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| I dreamed of working at Microsoft...
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| Somewhere along the way though, things changed...
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| I found myself working with 'day coders', people with no passion...
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| So, today I resigned my job, and completely ended my Microsoft career...
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| I'm writing this on my Mac using NeoOffice Writer while the PC under my
| desk is, for the last time ever, removing Windows and all the trappings
| that go with it to install Ubuntu Linux. My Microsoft career is now
| officially over. Microsoft don't innovate, in my opinion. Vista looks like
| a pile of crap compared to Mac OS X and Ubuntu with GLX. Their software
| is buggy, overpriced, and stress inducing. Their development tools are
| staid, designed and developed by committees to solve every problem
| you could ever conceive of, while being ideally suited to solving none.
|
| The people that write code for a living with Microsoft technologies (by
| and large -= not all, and if you're reading a blog about coding then
| you're probably not included in this generalization) are day coders.
| They code to pick up a pay check ? they have no passion, no drive,
| little talent and create environments filled with tedium and
| political bullshit.
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| Today, I've resigned to leave that world behind forever, and I couldn't
| be happier.
|
| Microsoft are the new IBM, and Microsoft customers are just like the
| huge corporate suit wearing monoliths that bought into the whole IBM
| mirage back in the 70's and 80's. I don't want to work for IBM. I just
| want to write cool software with talented passionate people, and make a
| difference in the world. I want to push the boundaries again like I did
| in the 80's and early 90's. I want to have fun and come home with a smilea
| nd a hug for my wife and kids instead of trudging through the door
| burdened with stress induced by boredom and corporate ineptitude.
|
|
| Good bye Microsoft. It's been emotional!
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http://peterwright.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-bye-microsoft-pete-has-now-left.html
To repeat:
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| Vista looks like a pile of crap compared to Mac OS X and Ubuntu with
| GLX. Their software is buggy, overpriced, and stress inducing. Their
| development tools are staid, designed and developed by committees to
| solve every problem you could ever conceive of, while being ideally
| suited to solving none.
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