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Comment Employees to be fired not laid off. (Score -1, Troll) 506

by right handed on Monday January 05, 2009 @05:44PM (#26335651) Attached to: Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide

Just spotted this.

Microsoft Terminating employee's to save on severance and press release "layoff" ... CSS is evaluating Team Mgr's that have been in their level for 30 months to evaluate how to trim Team Mgr. Human Resources is pulling reports to see anyone who has "violated policies" this will assist in a terminations rather than a lay off and severance.

I can't vouch for the veracity of the claim but it's about what you can expect from any Fortune 100 company these days and M$ escpially.

Comment No, that would make sense. (Score -1) 506

by right handed on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:23PM (#26331761) Attached to: Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide

It's just an executive shuffle right now, Vista has been just given a name change to Windows 7.

Comment M$ Performance Evaluation and Futility. (Score -1, Troll) 506

by right handed on Monday January 05, 2009 @01:20PM (#26331715) Attached to: Microsoft Rumored To Lay Off Thousands Worldwide

Uses Linux: Fired
Reads Wikipedia, unless editing in M$ favor is job task: Fired
Uses Google: Fired
Owns an iPod, iPhone or Mac: Fired

Really but it won't help. The company has fired people for mentioning M$ Mac use in their personal blogs and Ballmer said he "brainwashed" his his kids away from Google and iPod. The company is serious about using their own products to the point of religious self destruction. The whole company is built on mind share for something that can be completely replaced with something better in five minutes. The sad fact for them is that every normal company is turning to free software for price and performance reasons.

Wayland, a New X Server For Linux 487

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 03, 2008 @06:47PM from the at-least-it's-not-called-Y dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article out on Wayland: A New X Server For Linux. One of Red Hat's engineers has started writing a new X11 server around today's needs and to eliminate the cruft that has been in this critical piece of free software for more than a decade. This new server is called Wayland and it is designed with newer hardware features like kernel mode-setting and a kernel memory manager for graphics. Wayland is also dramatically simpler to target for in development. A compositing manager is embedded into the Wayland server and ensures 'every frame is perfect' according to the project's leader."

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