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02/02/2005, 12:45pm, EST

Wednesday, February 2nd

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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Reality Hits Home
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02/02, 12:58pm, EST
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!
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LOL
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02/02, 1:02pm, EST
yea hahaha! the best news i've heard all day :D :D
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Now ...
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02/02, 1:03pm, EST
... THAT is funny!
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ROLF
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02/02, 1:07pm, EST
That was the funniest thing I read all day :-)
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Frowning
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02/02, 1:09pm, EST
Imagine a company frowning upon what you purchase and use. Microsoft really is the Gestapo!
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chuckle, chuckle
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02/02, 1:13pm, EST
Share this one with your friends . . .
This should be bigger news; it will only get funnier. I would love to see an official press release from Msoft.

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Munzian, "Haw Haw!"
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02/02, 1:17pm, EST
How sweet it is to see Apple get the best of Big Redmond.
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thats funny
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02/02, 1:18pm, EST
they just cant take it when apple develops a better product.
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Thus spoke Ballmer
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02/02, 1:19pm, EST
I wonder if they are all thieves as the Big Cheese Ballmer has stated???
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Now, that's a news
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02/02, 1:29pm, EST
I live in Bellevue, WA (just next to Redmond, WA) and this makes me even more happy.
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