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  • Asher's upcoming dilemma: Google vs Microsoft

    From a german news source (summary below)

    Microsoft gegen Google wird emotional
    Microsoft-Chef Steve Ballmer zeigt immer mal wieder starke Emotionen - zuletzt offenbar gegen Google, inklusive Sesselwurf.
    Sonntag, 04.09.05
    Die Auseinandersetzung rund um den ehemaligen Microsoft-Mitarbeiter Kai-Fu Lee, der von Google engagiert wurde, bringt einige intime Details aus dem Hause Microsoft ans Tageslicht.

    Denn Lee war offenbar nicht der erste höhere Microsoft-Angestellte, der die Firma Richtung Google verlassen hat.

    Laut den Papieren, die Google und Microsoft im Kampf um Lee vor Gericht eingereicht haben, geht es dabei nicht immer ganz reibungslos ab.

    Mark Lucovsky, bereits letztes Jahr von MS zu Google abgewandert, gibt in seiner beeideten Erklärung an, dass Ballmer, als er hörte, dass Lucovsky zu Google wechseln will, nicht nur heftig fluchte, sondern vor Zorn auch einen Stuhl durch den Raum geschmissen haben soll.


    Wenn die Angaben stimmen, zeigt das einmal mehr die bereits oftmals kolportierte gegen Google gerichtete Stimmung im Hause Microsoft.
    Der Kampf ums Technologie-Know-how



    "Kill Google"
    Lucovsky setzte Ballmer im November letzten Jahres von seiner anstehenden Kündigung in Kenntnis. Daraufhin soll Ballmer gesagt haben: "Sagen sie mir nur, dass es nicht Google ist." Als Lucovsky jedoch angab, zu Google wechseln zu wollen, soll Ballmer zuerst den Stuhl geschmissen und anschließend Google-Chef Eric E. Schmidt mit unflätigen Worten bedacht haben.

    "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google", sollen Ballmers Worte gewesen sein. Schmidt war vormals Chef bei Novell und arbeite für Sun Microsystems.

    Ballmer seinerseits streitet diese Aussagen ab und beschrieb die Erklärung in einer Stellungnahme am Freitag als "grobe Übertreibung" von dem was wirklich statt gefunden habe.

    Lucovsky Entscheidung zu gehen sei enttäuschend gewesen und er habe ihn gedrängt zu bleiben, seine Beschreibung von dem Treffen sei aber nicht korrekt, so Ballmer.



    "Google ist ein Kartenhaus"
    Laut Lucovsky soll Ballmer unter anderem mit den Worten "Googles ist keine echte Firma, das ist ein Kartenhaus" versucht haben, Überzeugungsarbeit zu leisten.
    Source: http://futurezone.orf.at/futurezone....4016&channel=1
    Summary:
    Lately some MS employees have quit their job and went to Google. Steve Ballmer is enraged and is said to have thrown a chair across his office when he heard Mark Lucovsky, last year was going to Google. This came up during a court inquiry of the process around Kai-Fu Lee who also went to Google.
    Ballmer ofc denied to have said the bold parts, but it's true that he urged Lucovsky to stay.


    Ballmer is probably enraged that Google doesn't want him and who knows, maybe we'll be using GoogleOS, 5 years from now.
    I really wonder what Google needs all these specialists for. I mean all their software projects so far, are actually quite trivial and some even bought together (like maps, picasa,...).

  • #2
    I bet 500 posts that Asher supports Google
    "I have been reading up on the universe and have come to the conclusion that the universe is a good thing." -- Dissident
    "I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
    "I have never cut off my penis when I was upset over a girl." -- Dis

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    • #3
      I bet 500 posts that Asher will perform an illegal operation and will be shut down...
      Speaking of Erith:

      "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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      • #4
        Oh, and if this problem persists, please contact Ming
        Speaking of Erith:

        "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Provost Harrison
          I bet 500 posts that Asher will perform an illegal operation and will be shut down...
          well if he comes to America and there's a Chief Justice Scalia...

          that might not be a joke
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • #6
            GoogleOS
            This space is empty... or is it?

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            • #7
              Google sponsored "Summer of Code"

              I am sure MS was happy with that.
              (\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
              (='.'=) "Claims demand evidence; extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence." -- Carl Sagan
              (")_(") "Starting the fire from within."

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              • #8
                Just a bit of healthy competition for MS...
                Speaking of Erith:

                "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                • #9
                  Google :
                  The good stuff MS has done :
                  Hot turkish chicks :
                  Competition :

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                  • #10
                    GoogleLinux!
                    Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by aneeshm
                      Google :
                      The good stuff MS has done :
                      Hot turkish chicks :
                      Competition :
                      “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
                      - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by aneeshm
                        Google :
                        The good stuff MS has done :
                        Hot turkish chicks :
                        Competition :
                        "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                        Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                        • #13
                          I guess this is what Asher's version will be like


                          Google :
                          The good stuff MS has done :
                          Hot Turkish gay men :
                          Competition :

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                          • #14
                            I'm not a fan of Turkish/Greek men.
                            "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                            Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                            • #15


                              To us, it is the BEAST.

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