Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill

[billbuckhead]

Hide Your IPod, Here Comes Bill 

By Leander Kahney

Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears.

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

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The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player -- that translates to 16,000 iPod users among the 25,000 who work at or near Microsoft's corporate campus. "This irks the management team no end," said the source.


So popular is the iPod, executives are increasingly sending out memos frowning on its use.

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I wonder if Bill watches Pixar movies?

[davidwparker]

1. GO APPLE!!!

[theorist]

2. They're portable hard drives.

How do you expect techies to not like the idea of carrying around all of their work (and music) in one tiny case.

Maybe the MS management could ban them for security reasons. They wouldn't want the next big software release being leaked to early now would they?

[kohodog]

3. That's a great story!

And what you get for working on the dark side. All they need to do is get some black earbuds and they'll be ok.

[Placebo]

4. No!

We just got our iPod today and we loves it, we loves it we do. *strokes it*

My...preciousssssss...

[slutticus]

5. Bill probably has one.

He has to. How else is he going to rip it off?

[tuvor]

6. Oh, does Microsoft offer an alternative?

:eyes: