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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: xyle_one on 2 February 2005, 21:13

Title: Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: xyle_one on 2 February 2005, 21:13

http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,66460,00.html?tw=rss.TOP

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Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears.

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

"About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. "It's pretty staggering."

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: Refalm on 2 February 2005, 21:26

Does Microsoft even have an mp3 player?

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: JanusChrist on 2 February 2005, 22:02

Quote from: Refalm

Does Microsoft even have an mp3 player?

Dunno but they have a shitty compression codec. Seriously, does ANYONE use .wma?

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: Giorgi on 2 February 2005, 22:08

I'm sure, Billy will get very angry about that and he will fire all those who use iPod (or even buy entire iPod developement team)  :D

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: Refalm on 2 February 2005, 22:30

Quote from: Giorgi

I'm sure, Billy will get very angry about that and he will fire all those who use iPod (or even buy entire iPod developement team)  :D

 Microsoft iPod .NET :p

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: solemnwarning on 3 February 2005, 01:51

i was gonna get an ipod but cant afford so i got 1 from novatech still its not m$ :P

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: WMD on 3 February 2005, 03:04

Quote from: JanusChrist

Dunno but they have a shitty compression codec. Seriously, does ANYONE use .wma?

Yes.  A buddy of mine only has Windows Media Player to rip CDs with, hence, he's stuck with that.

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: pulsechild on 17 February 2005, 01:34

The Microsoft iCrash.

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: Calum on 17 February 2005, 16:40

no microsoft don't have aportable music thing, they do software for other people's hardware, still and all, the fact that their employees use iPods means that those machines are definitely running apple software on them.

still, i don't see what the problem is, apple makes good hardware with good software, that's how they maintain their market niche, microsoft makes so-so software for generic hardware, that's how they maintain their market share majority (many more people are prepared to buy so-so stuff cheaply than buy good stuff for top dollar) so all this ipod thing means is that microsoft pays their employees too much! (or that their employees are not the mindless drones that the rest of microsoft's users are!)

Title: Re: Laffo- Microsoft employees love their iPods.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 17 February 2005, 16:46

It wouldn't surprise me if some Microsoft employees have an Apple Mac at home.