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Farshad

Delphi Developer
 

OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive


2007-11-08 11:19:31 PM
delphi258
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx
Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was
for " violation of company policies"./
Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
There are few things that I speculate:
- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java
 
 
Anders Ohlsson (CodeGear)

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 12:18:27 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad writes:
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- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java
Funny, but I am sure that all of the above would qualify as
competitive analysis and fit well with the job... :)
It's probably more likely that he expensed a drink too many,
or something along those lines.
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Rod

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 02:45:45 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad writes:
Quote
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx

Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was
for " violation of company policies"./


Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
There are few things that I speculate:

- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java
No. He is a native Win32 developer and un-installed the .net framework.
 

Tony Caduto

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 02:51:56 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad writes:
Quote
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx

Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was
for " violation of company policies"./


They should have fired Ballmer....
 
Phillip Flores

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 03:11:45 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad writes:
Quote
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx

Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was
for " violation of company policies"./


Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
There are few things that I speculate:

- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java


He had Ubuntu running on his desktop
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Clément Doss

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 03:52:25 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Quote

- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java

- He downsized to WinXP!
 
Olivier Pons

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 04:47:12 PM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad a écrit :
Quote
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx

Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and was
for " violation of company policies"./


Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
There are few things that I speculate:

- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java





He typed "ls -al" in a Windows shell
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Marco Caspers

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 06:46:28 PM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Olivier Pons writes:
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He typed "ls -al" in a Windows shell
And apparently it "worked" too, albeit, not as he expected <g>
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John McLaine

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 09:59:01 PM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Farshad writes:
Quote

news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx

Excerpt: /A Volish spinner said it was following an investigation and
was for " violation of company policies"./


Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
There are few things that I speculate:

- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
- He set Google as his default home page
- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
- He drank a cup of Java
In fact he came in the office with a Official Coderage II T-shirt... ;-)
--
 
I.P. Nichols

Delphi Developer

2007-11-09 11:25:38 PM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

"John McLaine" writes:
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>
 >Now I wonder what he did that caused a "violation of company policies"
 >There are few things that I speculate:
 >
 >- He installed FireFox on his desktop.
 >- He downloaded trial Delphi 2007
 >- He set Google as his default home page
 >- He fed a penguin in his last visit to zoo
 >- He drank a cup of Java
In fact he came in the office with a Official Coderage II T-shirt... ;-)
What really caused the problem was his asking for a salary advance to pay
the fee... ;-)
 
Markus.Humm

Delphi Developer

2007-11-10 02:38:13 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

Marco Caspers schrieb:
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Olivier Pons writes:

<snip>
>He typed "ls -al" in a Windows shell
And apparently it "worked" too, albeit, not as he expected <g>


Hello,
I just recently found out that it worked under cmd.exe at my workplace.
But a ls -? revealed thetn that the Novell client had brounght it with
him... ;-)
Greetings
Markus
 
Olivier Pons

Delphi Developer

2007-11-10 04:33:58 AM

Re:OT: Microsoft fires chief information executive

LOL ! Worked for me too, but because I have installed Cygwin
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