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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Friday 31 October 2008 14:04 : \____
> After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
> this bit o' wisdom:
>
>> Microsoft's Razorfish cuts NYC staff
>>
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>>| Microsoft's online ad agency Razorfish laid off 40 staff in its New York
>>| office this afternoon, citing a dropoff in business from the financial
>>| services sector.
>> `----
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsofts_Razorfish_online_ad_agency_cuts_NY_staff33609649.html
>
>
> Microsoft acquired Razorfish when it bought the agency's parent company,
> aQuantive, for $6 billion, last year. The aQuantive purchase was part of
> Microsoft's effort to catch up to Google in online ad technology. Google
> at the time had just acquired another online ad company, DoubleClick.
>
> There's been frequent speculation that Microsoft is looking to unload
> Razorfish. The thinking goes that Microsoft was never very interested in
> the ad agency, but wanted aQuantive for its major technology parts, the
> online advertising platform Atlas and website ad network DRIVEpm.
"Oh noes! We're getting acquired by Selfish Beast."
FWIW, aQuantive uses FOSS and GNU/Linux. Everywhere Microsoft looks, successful
companies reject its technology. Microsoft just wants to buy some market share
though.
> Found this funny little (but old) item:
>
> http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2004/09/microsoft-layoffs-hiring-and.html
>
> If Microsoft won't spend $20 to restock the office supply room with
> pencils, what makes you think that Microsoft will spend $600 to fly an
> employee up to Redmond to interview them? The only way that you're going
> to get moved is if you are extremely better than the people competing in
> Redmond AND better than any potential recruits from outside. I've
> actually been in interview loops where someone was selected...not because
> they were the best, but because they would have to spend a massive amount
> of money to relocate the best.
I think the same guy wrote (this month?) that sometimes Microsoft accepts new
recruits but puts their actual hiring on freeze. [based on memory, so it could
be inaccurate]
> On the other hand:
>
> http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/09/23.html#a8291
>
> Hint: there are lots of great programmers at Microsoft too. Come over to
> the Tablet PC team. The Media Center team. Or visit Chris Pratley of the
> OneNote team. Or step on over and meet the Visual Studio team. Heck, and
> we won't even bring up the wild stuff that's going on in the research
> department. Oh, and did you see that we hired the guy who invented the
> Wiki? The guy who invented Tetris? Have you looked at the code on Xbox
> Live? How can you say that great programmers aren't coming to work here?
Those people appear to be leaving, only to be replaced by cheaper labour.
Forget about soda and towels.
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~~ Best of wishes
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