Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
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Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#2This makes sense. As a big player in enterprise, Microsoft is recognizing that there's a new industry that's vastly under served.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#3Good. Maybe they can open a cafe on their campus to sell recreational versions so their people can test their tech and try the product.
It'd make many developers I know want to work for Microsoft.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#4What is the legality of marijuana on the federal level in the US? I was under the impression that even if marijuana is legal on a state level you can still get in trouble for it.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#5Good. Maybe they can open a cafe on their campus to sell recreational versions so their people can test their tech and try the product. It'd make many developers I know want to work for Microsoft.
The biggest pothead team at Microsoft was the Internet Explorer guys. So if you want another 20 years of calculating bounding rectangles incorrectly, by all means let's get the rest of the company baked.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#6Good. Maybe they can open a cafe on their campus to sell recreational versions so their people can test their tech and try the product. It'd make many developers I know want to work for Microsoft.
The biggest pothead team at Microsoft was the Internet Explorer guys. So if you want another 20 years of calculating bounding rectangles incorrectly, by all means let's get the rest of the company baked.
Of course, the old IE box model is what everyone else overrides the default to match nowadays. Maybe they were on to something!
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#7This makes sense. As a big player in enterprise, Microsoft is recognizing that there's a new industry that's vastly under served.
Massively underserved. I live in Denver and have friends with ownership stakes in local dispensaries. The quality of their software solutions (mainly POS/Compliance) is laughable.
Edit: This (http://www.mjfreeway.com/) is the defacto standard. I kid you not it went down for 2 weeks ~a year ago after scheduled maintenance went wrong. At the time it had ~50% market share, this left dispensaries around the country doing all their compliance and POS by hand for weeks.
Amateur hour.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#8Good. Maybe they can open a cafe on their campus to sell recreational versions so their people can test their tech and try the product. It'd make many developers I know want to work for Microsoft.
The biggest pothead team at Microsoft was the Internet Explorer guys. So if you want another 20 years of calculating bounding rectangles incorrectly, by all means let's get the rest of the company baked.
Actually? This would explain a lot.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#9What is the legality of marijuana on the federal level in the US? I was under the impression that even if marijuana is legal on a state level you can still get in trouble for it.
Federally, it's still illegal. However, there have been statements that they aren't prosecuting or pursuing legal action in states that have legalized it [0].
[0]: http://www.denverpost.com/2013/08/29/federal-government-wont...
Edit: For the record, it would still block you from getting a US Government security clearance, and you can still run drug tests on employees and decline them for failing.
Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
#10So, they'll be plugging in the TVs^H^H^H Monitors for some of the more out of it customers???
(with apologies to Cheech & Chong)
Green Screen of Somnolence???