SillyDog701

[Antony]

According to The Mac Observer report and Wired News, Microsoft is very unhappy about Apple's popular portable music player - iPod. The source said 80% of Microsoft workers has portable music player, and 80% of those portable music players are Apple's iPod. This translates to 16,000 iPods on Microsoft's Redmond campus.

[quote]The note prompted a curt reply from Dave Fester, general manager of the Windows Digital Media division, who wrote the group: “I sure hope Microsoft employees are not buying iPods. We have great alternatives. Check out http://experiencemore.â€

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[Mandrake]

Many employees have taken to hiding their iPod use by swapping out the white headphones for a pair of third-party black ones, although workers in the Macintosh Business Unit proudly tote their iPods with them.

lol! What would Bill Gates say?

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[Antony]

adding a new rule to the contract?
No personal Apple products in the Campus as the requirement of working for Microsoft?

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[DJGM]

And lest we forget . . . the biggest 3rd party software developer for Mac is . . . Microsoft!

Anyway, I'll bet Bill's got at least one 60GB iPod Photo! He'll probably be heading
into his local branch WalMart sometime soon to pick up a couple of iPod Shuffles!

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[Mandrake]

And lest we forget . . . the biggest 3rd party software developer for Mac is . . . Microsoft!

Anyway, I'll bet Bill's got at least one 60GB iPod Photo! He'll probably be heading
into his local branch WalMart sometime soon to pick up a couple of iPod Shuffles!

Maybe Bill Gates uses Firefox too!

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[Al]

Who knows. Who knows. Maybe Bill even owns a few Macintoshes

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[Don_HH2K]

Who knows. Who knows. Maybe Bill even owns a few Macintoshes

It's already known that he does. If I might borrow from the Gates/O'Brien Keynote Presentation at the 2005 CES, take a look for yourself

OK, but seriously, Bill has at one point owned a Macintosh. Back in the days of competition between the IBM PC and Apple's PCs, Microsoft began developing for the Mac because of competition from VisiCalc and Lotus on the IBM PC front, and Bill Gates at the time was one of those developers. I remember reading somewhere that they used to swap between Apple machines when people from Apple came and swapped to IBM machines when people from IBM came. Funny to see what might have happened if the two had come at the same time...

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[Al]

Wierd... I would guess that Steve Jobs own a PC

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[James]

I can affirm this. My wife's son works for Microsoft. He was one of the developers of the Windows registry but switched to the X-box two years ago. He has an ipod and he wouldn't part with it for anything.

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