Seattle 2.0 Blog

February 1, 2008

    If Mini-Microsoft is right, this will be a great opportunity for Seattle startups to grab some good minds out of the mothership.  

    Quote:

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One that sticks in my mind right now is how if we acquired Yahoo! - such a big company - we'd have to naturally have layoffs within Microsoft to accommodate it.

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Man, if I was in the Online Services Division I would be worried. Especially if Yahoo! did something my team did and did it well.

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    Well, let's see a few things Yahoo does better: Upcoming, Flickr, Del.icio.us, MyBlogLog, HotJobs, Finance, Groups, Travel, ...

    I like Yahoo Maps, but Virtual Earth is probably a bit ahead in technology, although Yahoo Maps has a lot of support options (AJAX, Flash, Static, etc.). The search guys have nothing to worry about because they will be the one dictating the rules. And Mail is a tie.

Comments (1) for "Layoffs at Microsoft = Great...

You should realize that MSN employees are quite shit. Way below the average MS skill set. All the shitty testers who wanted to become devs only got an offer from MSN (no hires from all other teams). I know 2 people who got fired from MS but were re-hired by MSN (they're senior devs now, WTF). By Vlad - Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:03:56 GMT