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Reminds me of the old (2003) story where a brand new Microsoft employee blogged a photo of some pallets of Power Macs he saw on the company campus, “Looks like
by bagrow 8y ago
Reminds me of the old (2003) story where a brand new Microsoft employee blogged a photo of some pallets of Power Macs he saw on the company campus, “Looks like someone is getting some new toys!” Or something to that effect. He was quickly fired.
https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-fires-worker-over-weblog-1128373.php https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-fires-w...
- hadrien01 8y ago> 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons Sorry, this content is not available in your region. Does anyone have another link?
- mises 8y agohttp://web.archive.org/web/20040927081520/https://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/even_microsoft_.html http://web.archive.org/web/20040927081520/https://www.michae...
- sciurus 8y agoAnd the pay about being fired: http://web.archive.org/web/20041101091454/http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/10/of_blogging_and.html http://web.archive.org/web/20041101091454/http://www.michael...
- xkcd-sucks 8y agoInteresting, where are you located? I can read it from USA New York area
- hadrien01 8y agoFrance. I guess they don't want to comply with GDPR.
- Maxious 8y agoThat photo was the earliest confirmation of these dev boxes: https://www.xenonwiki.com/Alpha#History https://www.xenonwiki.com/Alpha#History A mirror of the post on slashdot he seems to think they were for the Mac Business Unit, only now I think we can see why they were worried: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83988&cid=7337263 https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83988&cid=7337263 Rabid gamers have been known to acquire dev kits before especially if they might open the door to homebrew... https://www.neogaf.com/threads/xbox-one-dev-kit-leaker-makes-court-appearance.619086/ https://www.neogaf.com/threads/xbox-one-dev-kit-leaker-makes...