Quote the senior vice president of research at Microsoft Corp., Rick Rashid:
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We have a research project in Cambridge where one of our researchers designed and built a device that just literally takes pictures
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Uh... ever hear of a camera? First, they copy Firefox (a few years old) with tabs. Now, the camera (almost 150 years old) with...the entire idea and purpose!!!
Now I realize that quote isn't quite what Mr. Rashid was trying to say. However, I do find it pretty funny (and typical M$). But if you read on:
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...it’s like a black box for a human being
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As if they don't invade our privacy enough! Everything you do, every click, keystroke on Windows, has a possibility of ending up in a data center. Call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist, but I think they are watching us.
And of course, a M$ employee can't go through an interview without bashing Linux:
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A lot of times when people talk about proprietary, they say we charge money for what we do and others give it away for free. I think that’s less of an issue. If you create something of value that people want, people will pay for it. People buy Linux – they might not have to, but for someone to get Linux and to install it all by themselves without any effort from all the free places, is actually pretty hard.
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"All the free places"? That's an incredibly vague attack on the open source community. "Pretty hard" is the best put-down he can come up with. Um... He's not giving any reason for using Micro$oft. I think I'll go through "pretty hard" for increased security, stability, efficiency, speed, wallet-friendliness, privacy, freedom, community, and support any day of the week (and twice on Sundays).
Don't take anything I say in this rant too seriously. I am slightly biased towards open source, and if you think I'm crazy and don't have any facts, dismiss this post. I don't want to start a flame war, just let my opinions on another Microsoft interview be known.
