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Microsoft gags its evangelists
http://www.moneylife.in/article/3772.html
Microsoft Tells Loudmouths To Not Tweet Company Secrets
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| Microsoft is telling some of its biggest fans to
| stay off Twitter for the next few days.
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| That's because right now Microsoft is holding its
| annual MVP Summit -- a gathering of over 1,000
| people who are, according to Microsoft,
| "committed to helping others get the most out of
| their experience with Microsoft products and
| technologies."
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http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-tells-loudmouths-to-not-tweet-company-secrets-2010-2
How to get laid off: the Don Dodge approach
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/02/how_to_get_laid_off_the_don_do.html
Microsoft Confessions: 'There were a ton of bozos'
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| Do middling, middle managers run Microsoft?
| That's the consensus among the former
| Microsofties who shared their work stories
| with me over the last couple months. The new
| work week starts with another Microsoft
| Confessional -- the fourth in four days --
| from 13-year company veteran Boris, which
| isn't his real name, of course. Boris was
| smart enough to see the end coming, and he
| made preparations in the days before his May
| 2009 layoff. He learned to read middle
| managers the way a genuine fortune teller
| might read tea leaves.
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http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Microsoft-Confessions-There-were-a-ton-of-bozos/1265604434
Microsoft Needs More Traitors
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| Most companies dream of having loyal employees
| and managers. They want people who will follow
| the company strategy and stick to their jobs.
| But at Microsoft, a culture of loyalty has
| turned into slavish devotion to outdated
| strategy, outmoded thinking, and personal
| fiefdoms that today threatens to bring the
| company down.
|
| [...]
|
| Really? Microsoft focused on one narrow
| example and ignored every other criticism â
| the VP in charge of Office refused to adapt
| the product line to tablet computers, poor
| timing on Web TV and MP3 players, lost share
| in key product areas, and the steady exit of
| the companyâs smartest employees. Yup, it was
| ignoring significant criticism because thatâs
| not part of the program. It would just make
| the people in charge look bad.
|
| Maybe the problem is that many traitors
| already work at Microsoft. They just donât
| realize it.
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http://industry.bnet.com/technology/10005233/microsoft-desperately-needs-traitors/
Microsoft On iTunes In 2003: 'We Were Smoked'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-on-itunes-in-20_n_456431.html
Related:
Shuttleworth: Microsoft Fracturing the Open-Source Community
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| "That's extortion and we should call it what it is," he said. "To say, as
| [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer did, that there is undisclosed balance sheet
| liability, that's just extortion and we should refuse to get drawn into that
| game. On the other side, if Microsoft is concerned about its intellectual
| property, there is no one in the free software community that wants to
| violate anyone's IP. Disclose the patents and we'll fix the code.
| Alternatively, move on."
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| Microsoft has said it does disclose which patents are being violated, but
| only in one-on-one conversations with vendors. To Shuttleworth, that is not
| disclosure, because patents are public documents.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2167193,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
[Mark Shuttleworth Interview]
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| Microsoft is asking people to pay them for patents, but they won't
| say which ones. If a guy walks into a shop and says: "It's an
| unsafe neighbourhood, why don't you pay me 20 bucks and I'll make
| sure you're okay," that's illegal. It's racketeering. What Microsoft
| is doing with intellectual property is exactly the same. It's a great
| company and I have great admiration for it, but this was not a
| well considered position.
|
| So you wouldn't do a deal?
|
| No, absolutely not. But the time will come when the folks at
| Microsoft who have a clear vision for the company as a participant
| in this community, rather than as a hostile antagonist, will win.
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