techflash.com - 2/2/2009
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One of my favorite weekend activities is perusing the Seattle region's thrift stores. I noticed something interesting on Sunday-- an overabundance of Microsoft t-shirts. A lot more than I've noticed before. There were dozens at one Goodwill alone. OK, so this is about as unscientific as it gets. ...
news.cnet.com - 1/30/2009
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Remember that teenage trick of sticking your fingers
in your ears and saying, "I can't hear you"?...
That's how I felt on Thursday morning when I talked to Adam Sohn, the marketing director for Zune. No retreat, baby, no surrender. I don't ...
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Microsoft: More Zunes coming in 2009
seattlepi.nwsource.com - 1/30/2009
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Microsoft Corp. is suing a former employee, claiming
that he applied for a job at the company...
under false pretenses and then used his role at Microsoft to gain access to confidential data related to patent litigation he is now waging.
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Microsoft sues CEO of Ancora for spying
crunchgear.com - 2/1/2009
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The poor bastard who got a tattoo of
the motivational “Blue Monster” has been laid off ....
Blue Monster Man, Dan Woodman, writes: Working at Microsoft has been the greatest experience of my life and I have no desire to forget about it. ...
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Blue Monster guy laid-off at Microsoft
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The Shirts Off of Microsoft's Back
Valleywag —
Microsoft's first-ever mass layoffs bore unusual fruit for Microsoft obsessive Todd Bishop, who spent the weekend in Seattle-area thrift shops. He discovered more discarded Microsoft logowear than ever. Some of his finds:
Microsoft Layoffs Lead to Increase in Microsoft Shirts at Seattle Thrift Stores
The Mac Observer —
Microsoft Layoffs Lead to Increase in Microsoft Shirts at Seattle Thrift Stores by on February 2nd, 2009 at 2:53 PM In the wake of thousands of layoffs at Microsoft, Todd Bishop has found what he called an "overabundance" of Microsoft shirts in Seattle thrift stores this weekend. Writing for TechFlash , Mr. Bishop called the shirts, "a fun glimpse into the company's internal culture and mindset." "One of my favorite weekend activities is perusing the Seattle region's thrift stores," Mr. Bishop wrote. "I noticed something interesting on Sunday-- an overabundance of Microsoft ...
Seattle thrift stores filled with old Microsoft shirts after layoffs
Boing Boing Gadgets —
A few days after Microsoft laid off 1,400 employees as part of a recession-prompted purge of 5,000, Seattle's thrift stores are stuffed to the gills with pawned off Microsoft t-shirts.
Some (like the "Warriors in Pink" Zune shirt or the hopelessly wishful thinking "Windows Mobile is better than iPhone" shirt) are just surreally absurd and corporately propagandist, like shirts flushed through a dimensional wormhole from another world.
Gallery: The shirts that Microsoft workers no longer want to wear [Tech Flash] ...
Seattle Thrift Stores Flooded With Shirts From Disgruntled Microsoft Ex-Employees [Clothing]
Gizmodo —
... is the shirt that features the message "Think your iPhone is cool? Let me show you a thing or two about Windows Mobile." Hmm...yes. Windows Mobile. Cool. No matter where your loyalties lie, you have to admit that even the most die hard Microsoft fan would move quickly to eliminate any reminder of the employer that left them high and dry. Then again, there are always exceptions to the rule. Hit the link to check out the rest of the shirts spotted in the $2 bargain bin. [Tech Flash via Boing Boing Gadgets]
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