I just with they had started from scratch on Win7 instead of heaping it on that steaming pile known as Vista.

Within 2 hours of the email it was all go on the layoffs - the first bunch will have been informed already.

.......now fuck off. Of course I'll still be paid my astronomically obscene wages for consistently making a twat out of myself on stage and for being at the helm during the period when Microsoft sold arguably their shittest OS to date, but hey ho that's how it goes....

..... mines the one with the Vista MCP badge.

For a moment there, I read that as provide support for people who are pi$$ed off (aka pretty much anyone who uses Windows) - yeah, like that support train ever rolled into town :-p

Monkeyman Ballmer is Bill Gates' lab experiment gone wrong.

After the layoffs he will then take a fat bonus on top of his already bloated and undeserved salary.

To be sure he is an evil fuck and will not leave M$ until the building falls down or at least until he's had a chance to squeeze every last penny out of it.

Bill Gates - Richest man in world (I know he left)

Making billions from selling licenses with computers that cannot handle vista.

Still pumping out Windows XP..

What are they losing. LIke 10p a day?>

"Thank you for your continued hard work, commitment, and focus"

ROFLMAO - productivity will be down 50% unless it's intel sweatshop-esk in there, in which case they'll only working to their metrics.

With a cash pile as big as microsoft, you'd think they'd keep people on and write a decent version of windows or office or something :]

Yes, their code was pathetic, and full of bugs, and it barely ran at all.

But the people who are really to blame are the "concept people" who tried to make the developers put in certain features, even though the developers knew they wouldn't work very well.

Also to blame is the entire marketing team, who decided to bill Vista as the best thing ever (including sliced bread). They should've been a little more realistic, and then, IF it took off, they could up the hype a bit.

@Hedley

The first people in the chair catapult should be the marketing team for Vista, the dev team was doing what they were told.

We could have marketing Skeet shooting ! It would lower the head count (Literally) AND improve morale !

How much Ballmer and all his ass kissing cronies are getting paid in bonuses, options, etc. All the while laying off people who's only crime was going to work for the likes of MS in the first place.

I have to fling this chair at your head whilst you're headed out the door.

Someday, after digging through all that gold you pissed away, by cranking out only marginal operating systems and average applications, you'll hit that layer of shit Microsoft so richly deserves.

Here's some free advice, don't let the marketing wankers drive the oil barge... The barge doesn't move or maneuver that fast. Oh, and while I'm feeling generous, here's another freebie: For the most part, people want stuff that works at least 80% of the time (I know I'm aiming a little too high) without GB after GB of service packs, patches, hot fixes and updates, reformatting the hard drive and starting over from scratch, or dare I suggest, upgrading a machine weeks after purchasing it new.

While I will openly admit I despise Microsoft and their pompous, self-righteous, our excrement doesn't stink attitude; I still have to give props to them for the os a commodity product. However, if it weren't for their greed, we wouldn't have things like the iMac or Linux, now would we?

I thought Microsoft developers have all been replaced by lawyers years ago.