Microsoft rewards ass kissing (Score 2, Interesting)

"Personally I think it's great that they recognize talented individuals and reward them well" Microsoft rewards self-promoters; I know no fewer then a gross of talented, hard working, money making machines that Microsoft allowed to be ass-fucked by bad managers and inept coworkers. Case in point: Alex StJohn single handedly (ok, three people...but who's counting) created DirectX in his spare time. DirectX made, and continues to make, MSFT a mountain of money. Alex was handed his head for being wildly succesful.