Microsoft Barring Many of its Employees from Buying Apple Products with Company Funds?

[samcraig]

Priceless....

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A neighbor works for Apple, and he and his kids love their Xbox 360 with Kinect.

Oh - I am like, for sure, Apple also paid for those - like totally. Because - you know - it's only Microsoft that would "dare" to not pay for their employees gadgets that were made by someone else! For realz dude!

 

[AidenShaw]

Oh - I am like, for sure, Apple also paid for those - like totally. Because - you know - it's only Microsoft that would "dare" to not pay for their employees gadgets that were made by someone else! For realz dude!

I think that you missed the context - I was responding to the question

does anyone know if Apple bans employees from using anything MS?​

Nothing said or implied about whether Apple paid for the gadget or whether the employee paid for the gadget.

 

[samcraig]

I think that you missed the context - I was responding to the question

does anyone know if Apple bans employees from using anything MS?​

Nothing said or implied about whether Apple paid for the gadget or whether the employee paid for the gadget.

Aiden - I'm playing with you. I'm in 100% agreement with what you've written in this thread.

 

[sha4000]

Yeah I kind of like his style too. At least he backs up his statements with facts to the best of his knowledge.

 

[Joelb955]

Very sensible post. As the saying goes, know thy enemy. If Microsoft wants to compete, they have to analyze how Apple focuses on user experience and quality and improve their own methods.

...You could have just said copy.

 

[rdlink]

Yeah, but this is the MacRumors forum, where Apple am king and anything negative about MS is basically christmas.

Not sure how this can be construed as negative about MS. Don't fund your employees' buying your competitor's products. Especially when your competitor is handing your ass to you in a bucket.

First straight thinking I've heard come out of Redmond for... Well, ever.

 

[cjmillsnun]

Why is this a surprise. The SALES GROUP using a competing product? Sales need to eat MS' own dogfood.

 

[Dbrown]

whats the big deal. Its no different than steve jobs getting rid of all the xeon workstations for mac pros when he ran pixar

 

[AidenShaw]

Pixar has been a Linux shop....

whats the big deal. Its no different than steve jobs getting rid of all the xeon workstations for mac pros when he ran pixar

Can you post a link? It's pretty commonly known that Pixar is mainly Linux on Intel, and has been since Sun fell from grace. Jobs was too smart to force Apple OSX onto Pixar.

Pixar Big on Linux Clusters - Mac, Not So Much

What Kind of Hardware Does Pixar Use

And the Mac Pro is horrifically bulky for a render farm of thousands or tens of thousands of servers - white box Xeon DP server rule the roost.