Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Did Microsoft lie about top exec's departure?
>>
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>>| The departure of Brian Valentine, a 19-year Microsoft veteran before he
>>| left in 2006, has always been a bit of a puzzle. In August of that year,
>>| Microsoft management told his staff he was taking a new job within the
>>| company after shipping Windows Vista. A month later, he left for
>>| Amazon.com. Now, Amazon.com has cleared things up with a belated SEC
>>| filing: Microsoft lied to its employees.
>> `----
>>
>> http://valleywag.com/357831/did-microsoft-lie-about-top-execs-departure
>>
>> How timely. A week ago Microsoft was spinning like nobody's business amid
>> the latest huge wave of executive departures. Microsoft lies as it
>> crumbles. Yesterday's 'big announcement' showed that it had given up
>> (hello, Samba) and put all its horses on software patents and BS like
>> Silverlight and OOXML, _BOTH OF WHICH_ are under EU antitrust scrutiny.
>>
>> Tough times for Microsoft, which approaches debt. Microsoft -- the next
>> Unisys.
>>
>
> Hmm... I just had a horrible thought... as the trolls lose their jobs
> during the Microsoft collapse, they'll be reemployed by some other
> company. We could have Funkenbusch, Timmy, Weisgerber, Gary Stewart,
> Scott Nudds and co all shilling for Oracle, say...
>
> Will they take new nyms, or continue with the old ones?
>
I say that they will drink the koolaid... There's no other way out and be
able to save face at the same time.
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Jerry McBride (jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx)
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