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Re: [News] [Rival] MSBBC Tightens Relationship with Microsoft, Apparently

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Bill Gates gets probed by Auntie
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| THE BBC is inviting its readers to ask Vole supremo Bill Gates questions.
> `----
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/02/bill-gates-probed-auntie
> 
> Look how Microsoft controls the media. Last month Billy became a writer for the
> BBC.
> 
> 
> Last month:
> 
> BBC pinches hot new columnist [Bill Gates] from Microsoft
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/14/bill_gates_bbc_secrets/
> 
> Citing -- you've guess it -- a new Microsoft study.
> 
> Survey: People skills valued over those for IT
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| Interpersonal skills are more important in the workplace than IT skills, 
>| according to the results of a survey commissioned by Microsoft. 
>| 
>| In the survey of approximately 500 board-level executives, 61 percent said 
>| interpersonal and teamworking skills were more important than IT skills. 
> `----
> 
> http://www.news.com/Survey-People-skills-valued-over-those-for-IT/2100-1022_3-6222828.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
> http://tinyurl.com/yolnpf
> 

They say that because they don't have any technical skills.  This is the
result of the 1990s purge of technical people and replacement of them
with MBA/politician types.  A quick look at the last few years of
Dilbert shows this up very well.

Interestingly, which companies are doing very very well?  Err, Google,
who employ... technical people and... Red Hat who employ... technical
people etc. etc.

A lot of companies with non-technical management are marching
double-time to the graveyard.

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