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Blogging could lead to unemployment

Here is a story of this guy, Michael Hanscom in his own words. He lost his job at Microsoft because of a post on his blog that talks about Apple G5s being used at Microsoft's Redmond facility and showed a photo of a truck delivering crates of G5s. He also described which building he works in and what he does.

His immediate firing would make people think that Microsoft has something to hide with respect to use of G5s. But, I don't think that is the case. He was fired because he disclosed company information (location of buildings, what goes on inside, etc.), which could be considered confidential on the web without any consent from the company.

I have no doubt MS uses Apples at its facility. They have to, because they develop Office software for Apples. I am sure they use a lot of Linux there too. Not only because it is more stable and reliable ;) , but because, it is a competing product to their own. They would try and learn things from it to make next version of Windows better(Huh!!), as tough as that may sound.

Posted by Parag at October 29, 2003 10:14 AM | TrackBack