Forbidden Fruit - Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones
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Forbidden Fruit - Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones
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#2Microsoft seems a lot more tolerant of competing hardware than I expected. Somehow I doubt they're as relaxed about it in Cupertino.
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#3Steve Ballmer: What happens when the serial killer from "silence of the lambs" becomes when he escapes from prison and takes on a new identity.
But seriously, does Microsoft buy its employees Windows Mobile phone? No? That's why nobody has them; why pay money for an inferior product just because you work there? At least Google buys everyone an Android phone.
I work for a bank. I don't put my money in this bank, because their fees are outrageous and their interest rates are insanely low. ING Direct is a much better product, so I use that instead. There is no incentive for me to use my employer's product; it would cost me money. Why would I want to spend my own money to make the executives feel better?
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#4Steve Ballmer: What happens when the serial killer from "silence of the lambs" becomes when he escapes from prison and takes on a new identity. But seriously, does Microsoft buy its employees Windows Mobile phone? No? That's why nobody has them; why pay money for an inferior product just because you work there? At least Google buys everyone an Android phone. I work for a bank. I don't put my money in this bank, becau…
I know it's off-topic, but why would you want to work for a company that treats its customers so badly? I mean, if they don't care about their customers they probably don't care much about you either, so it's entirely likely that you could do better working for someone who actually gives a fuck.
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#5If Ballmer was smart he would encourage the use of the iPhone and other competing phones, since that is the reality... Then tell employees to take notes from the form factor, software, usability, developer market and experience. He's completely backwards on this.
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#6When I was an intern at Microsoft in 2003, I brought my PowerBook into work. Sometimes coworkers would give me shit, and I would offer to start using a windows laptop once they used MSN Search instead of Google for all their web searches.
At the time, MSN search was so bad that this proposition was ludicrous. In fact, every Office developer I knew used Google with a "site:msdn.microsoft.com" restriction to search their own API docs.
I wonder if Bing is now good enough that employees feel pressure to use it instead of Google.
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#7I have never seen anyone try to hide their phone. I've seen people bring in and use their MBPs at work, some of them were even running Windows. No one cares.
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#8If Ballmer was smart he would encourage the use of the iPhone and other competing phones, since that is the reality... Then tell employees to take notes from the form factor, software, usability, developer market and experience. He's completely backwards on this.
Right. I think that one thing is eating your own dog food, another is trying to forbid employees using rival technology (hopelessly, as we can read in this article).
I think this pisses off employees and this is the last thing Microsoft can afford right now. The best for them is to use both the iPhone and some Microsoft phone to take note of the differences and help improve the latter.
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#9So I work at Microsoft. Specifically on the Windows team. I honestly can't say I've ever had any issues using my iPhone or MacBook Pro there.
During my interview we joked about how I had not used Windows (or any Microsoft product) in a serious capacity for over a decade. I run Apple on the desktop and Linux on servers. They seemed to like this diversity coming in on the team.
I joined a few months before Win7 shipped, and have to say... from day one I was pretty impressed with Win7. It's actually a really nice OS, I just wish the hardware it usually came on was as nice (I've yet to find a PC laptop as well designed as my MBP). The new Windows 7 phones though... wow they are amazing. Actually makes me consider replacing my iPhone, which Android just couldn't do.
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#10So I work at Microsoft. Specifically on the Windows team. I honestly can't say I've ever had any issues using my iPhone or MacBook Pro there. During my interview we joked about how I had not used Windows (or any Microsoft product) in a serious capacity for over a decade. I run Apple on the desktop and Linux on servers. They seemed to like this diversity coming in on the team. I joined a few months before Win7 shipped…
I had the exact same experience joining Microsoft - I hadn't used Windows (or any Microsoft product) for 5 years.