Microsoft management frustrated by iPods on campus

Microsoft's management is becoming more and more frustrated by the growing predominance of the iPod on its Redmond campus. Wired News says that the growing number of iPods on Microsoft's main campus: "To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers. 'About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod,' said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. 'It's pretty staggering.' The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player -- that translates to 16,000 iPod users among the 25,000 who work at or near Microsoft's corporate campus. So popular is the iPod, executives are increasingly sending out memos frowning on its use."

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