[brlug-poly] M$ wants YOU!

[Richards Jr, Edward C.]

Apparently, Uncle Steve (Ballmer) wants to lure us back into the M$ family. 

"The Cool Factor 

Microsoft also intends to specifically target Linux users with new capabilities in Windows and other products, Ballmer said. For example, Microsoft plans to go after the high-performance computing community with a forthcoming compute-cluster product, he said. 


In order to make these visions a reality, Microsoft will need to reverse its decline as a cool place to work among the industry's brightest stars, Bittman said. 


"They deliver cool stuff, Vista is cool. But the most interesting place to be is not Microsoft; they have to make it interesting," Bittman said. He noted that Ballmer took great pains to emphasize the amount of innovation that is taking place at Microsoft, from Web services development to the Xbox 360." 

from http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123108,00.asp

Ed 


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