Mini-Microsoft Shakes Things Up 374
Henry V .009 writes "BusinessWeek calls him Microsoft's Deep Throat. Although Steve Ballmer denies reading the blog, there are plenty at Microsoft who do. Mini-Microsoft says he wants to "slim down Microsoft into a lean, mean, efficient customer pleasing profit making machine." The user comment section of the site is the real gold: thousands of comments from Microsoft employees who tend to have a dim view about the company's recent evolution. And Microsoft may even be responding to all the internal criticism."
Innuendo (Score:5, Funny)
Is this what it has to "come" to for Microsoft?
There's a BETTER blogspot blog (Score:2, Funny)
(Now that blogs are searchable, we're finding all sorts of things!)
mini-microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
Steve Balmer will wear a frickin' laser on his forehead now. I'd watch out if I was you.
Boil it down, M$ is just too bloated (Score:5, Funny)
The Phone Company
Ernestine.....Lily Tomlin
Ernestine: We handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. We realize that every so often you can't get an operator, for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn't make.
We don't care.
Watch this.. [ she hits buttons maniacally ]
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated, even we can't handle it. But that's your problem, isn't it? Next time you complain about your phone service, why don't you try using two Dixie cups with a string?
We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.
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At the end of it all they want to make it all work, it's just they are fumbling in the dark. Get too big and your quality goes to hell.
Balmer's health is at stake ! (Score:5, Funny)
The plan: (Score:3, Funny)
2) Have them annihilate one of blogspot's servers.
3) Hope blogspot cancels his account out of frustration.
4) ???
5) Profit!
It should be interesting. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:mini-microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Blog is down.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blog is down.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:mini-microsoft (Score:2, Funny)
Re:insane (Score:1, Funny)
I didn't know anyone else form here posted on Slashdot...
Re:Boil it down, M$ is just too bloated (Score:3, Funny)
*checks ID number*
There's some correlation between the two, but I just can't put my finger on what it is.
Lean Mean.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:insane (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe not, but he obviously spends time on slashdot.
Re:Innuendo (Score:4, Funny)
Re:mini-microsoft (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Easy to ID this guy (Score:3, Funny)
The email frequency-analysis software has been delayed until 2007, as an optional install to the already-delayed WinFS. In desperation, MS has sent a purchase order to Apple to license Mail.app's junk mail filtering algorithm.
Re:IT'S A FUCKING WIFE (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Boil it down, M$ is just too bloated (Score:3, Funny)
Kids these days.
tiny tiny stuff (Score:0, Funny)
I bet you need a magifying glass to see that software !
Re:insane (Score:4, Funny)
For fucks sake! He's just some guy who works at a corporation. He's not Spartacus or Ghandi or whatever.
Re:Innuendo (Score:5, Funny)
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners.
Re:insane (Score:4, Funny)
That's right, because I'm Spartacus.
Re:insane (Score:3, Funny)
(Cue epic music. Fade to black. Open to wide shot of a man typing in a computer).