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Tech: Handspring earnings, Microsoft bugs

updated 05:00 pm EDT, Thu April 12, 2001

 
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Evening tech news: Handspring today reported a third-quarter loss of $6.7 million, compared to a loss of $4.5 million in the year ago quarter. The company's revenues rose from $34.3 million to $123.8 million. A bug has hit Microsoft's UltimateTV service, causing the hard drive storage on the device to mysteriously shrink; meanwhile, Microsoft says it plans to hire 5,000 to 6,000 workers this year, down from earlier estimates.


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    NO WAY!!!

    I would rather be a bum sitting in some alley in NYC drinking a bottle of cheap wine, defacating in coffee cans, showering at the local bus stop, happy meal eating, toes sticking out of my newspaper blanket, 2 sizes too small levi jeans wearing, sitting in the public park all day then to even consider working or stepping near Microsoft.

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    why?

    Honestly Microsoft treats its employees better than most companies out there...and if you are given the freedom to work on pretty much whatever you want, why wouldn't you want to? From everything I hear, Microsoft is a very free-thinking relaxed company (mainly because they have so much money they can afford to be relaxed...they can afford to loose money for the sake of getting the occational next-big-thing from their enthusiastic workforce). They also pay very well and as long as you are good at what you do you probably don't have to worry about being downsized.

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    Downsizing fear

    Whew, I'll take the job because MS won't downsize. I suppose that's one incentive. Jokes aside, and completely ignoring the monopoly issue, I think the quality of MS's work is one thing that might put people off. Word sucks (bloated, highly visible bugs unfixed for 3+ years), Visual Basic sucks (so MS made C#, in one way acknowledging this), and most of their products are painted liberally with rip-off features that reinvent the wheel, but just different enough that they can be considered proprietary. One wonders how "free" you are or how much you are listened to in the company; such sheer manpower and cash must be able to produce something that's truly innonative but I'm not convinced that MS has achieved this with their products.

    -Dirk Pitt

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