'Pissy emails from billg' - MS exec sinks teeth into Gates theregister.co.uk
Meanwhile, a bit from a week back, demonstrating that not everyone at Microsoft was in favor of leveraging the Windows monopoly at all costs. Who'd have thought, me and Brad Silverberg, onetime Mr. Windows, in agreement that all this OS integration business is a crock, and on Bill's whingeitudiousness too.
Silverberg's emails were written to Ben Slivka, another one of Microsoft's most talented execs. Both have subsequently left the company, but from what Silverberg says there have been clear, major differences of opinion within Microsoft as to the direction it should take. And it looks rather like Silverberg is one of Bill Gates' victims. Get a load of this:
"i [Silverberg's trademark is that his keyboard doesn't have a caps shift] simply do not want to spend my life in meetings struggling with the internal issues, getting pissy mail from billg saying the portal should be windows online so i can check my available bug fixes 10x a day, or hearing from people who want time to do unnatural and losing things to do to protect windows."
Isn't Slivka the guy Bill labeled a commie, when the idea of "free forever" wasn't so cool? That was a different context, of course. Quite an entertaining story, but I'll let the Register get the hit on reading the rest of the story. |
