“A report popped up yesterday that Microsoft communicated to police earlier this week that there had been a burglary in one of the buildings on its campus in Mountain View, California,” Cody Lee reports for iDownload Blog. “The thief, or thieves, broke into 3 offices in Building 5 on the campus between December 19 and 26, when most folks were gone for the holidays.”
Lee reports, “The Daily Post (via Joshua Anderson) reports: ‘Microsoft reported that two iPad 2s, and two iPad 3s with a combined value of more than $3,000 were taken some time time between Dec. 19 and Dec. 26 on the company’s campus. A police report also said a fifth tablet — described as an iPad 4, worth $729 — was taken as well… No Microsoft products were reported stolen.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Smirk.
Cue the ultimate anti-theft case that makes Apple iPads look like Microsoft Surface tablets in 3… 2… (see related article below).
[Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Related article:
Ultimate anti-theft case makes Apple iPods, iPhones look like Microsoft Zunes – July 16, 2007
What a low blow for Monkey Boy Ballmer, given that these thefts of devices made by the fruit competitor will hurt him in the pocket (ms apps development for iOS).
Heads will roll at Microsoft on Monday! Everyone knows you can’t do REAL work on an iPad. This group was just screwing off and should be fired!
You just can’t make up stuff this good. And you don’t have to.
It’s true. Our office building was broken into and the Macs were stolen and the PC’s—new Dell Laptops out in plain sight, were left untouched.
It was Bill Gates children who stole the Apple devices.
How did Ballmer miss this vote? Is Businessweek blind?
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/the-worst-ceos-of-2012#r=rss?campaign_id=bw.bs.taboola
That says everything! 🙂