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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 November 2005, 01:39

Title: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 November 2005, 01:39

This (http://money.howstuffworks.com/microsoft.htm) is both funny and sort of interesting and well bullshit, I expected better from HowStuffWorks.com.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: MarathoN on 13 November 2005, 01:54

Hahahaha, that is a joke. :D

But what can they say without getting sued? :(

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: H_TeXMeX_H on 13 November 2005, 01:57

Bahhh ... most of the stuff on HowStuffWorks.com is bullshit anyway, can't expect their article on M$ to be any less shitty than the rest

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: WMD on 13 November 2005, 02:05

I love how they say that Windows allowed you to turn an obsolete PC into a Mac-like interface at "one-tenth the cost of buying a Mac."  I didn't know XTs ran Windows very well.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 13 November 2005, 02:21

Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H

Bahhh ... most of the stuff on HowStuffWorks.com is bullshit anyway, can't expect their article on M$ to be any less shitty than the rest

I disagree, there is lots of good stuff on HowStuffWorks.com, personally I think their C tutorial (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm) rocks.

Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H

But what can they say without getting sued?:(

This is the real reason for this total bullshit, I wish they haden't botherd to write it at all, perhapps this is MS sponsored.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: MarathoN on 13 November 2005, 02:33

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

I disagree, there is lots of good stuff on HowStuffWorks.com, personally I think their C tutorial (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/c.htm) rocks.



This is the real reason for this total bullshit, I wish they haden't botherd to write it at all, perhapps this is MS sponsored.

That wouldn't surprise me. :rolleyes:

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Dark_Me on 13 November 2005, 05:06

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Microsoft designs its teams to be overworked. Project managers calculate the number of staff members needed to accomplish a task, then reduce it. This results in a team that has to scramble immediately or be overwhelmed. Microsoft also takes great care to choose the "right" people. The take-away is that Microsoft has very specific criteria their workers must fulfill, and they have developed an innovative means of assessing candidates: They ask them riddles. A company built on dominating via improvisation and high-energy needs high-energy problem solvers who don't mind working 72 hours straight. Although this type of employee seems difficult to find, somehow Microsoft keeps finding them.

And this is a good thing? Explains a lot.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: piratePenguin on 13 November 2005, 14:29

Maybe we should write our own article on how Microsoft works, if this one is bullshit.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Jenda on 13 November 2005, 21:08

That is incredible! :D

More sad than funny, though...

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: dmcfarland on 14 November 2005, 05:34

:mad: What a crock of shit. The guy that wrote that article grabbed his ankles and put his head between his legs for Bill Gates. OMG his computer must be overflowing with bs.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Dark_Me on 14 November 2005, 06:15

Yeah, we all kind figured that.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: themacuser on 15 November 2005, 12:09

Exactly.

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: Commander on 22 November 2005, 16:03

"The take-away is that Microsoft has very specific criteria their workers must fulfill, and they have developed an innovative means of assessing candidates: They ask them riddles."
I guess indians must me very good at riddles :(
"......"
"Although this type of employee seems difficult to find, somehow Microsoft keeps finding them."
well, they say there's a billion people in india...




:D

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: dmcfarland on 22 November 2005, 22:12

The go to india because they work them like slaves and not pay them shit, and they get them cheap.:thumbup:

Title: Re: How Microsoft works.
Post by: themacuser on 3 December 2005, 05:21

Yep. I do have to admit to using SkypeOut to piss them off...

Works very well - just bullshit them for ages and think about Microsoft's phone bill...