Microsoft management frustrated by iPods on campus
updated 12:45 pm EST, Wed February 2, 2005
iPods on Microsoft campus
Microsoft's management is becoming more and more frustrated by the 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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Reality Hits Home
Great article and good for quite a few laughs!
It's good to see that reality is finally hitting home with Microsoft. Their products and others' products which they support, aren't particularly compelling or seamlessly functional... even for their own employees!
It's a bit of a shock and a should be a wake-up call for Microsoft. This doesn't and won't necessarily translate to MS releasing anything much different or better than what they already offer!