“Former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee has accused the software giant of incompetence in its plans to gain a business footing in China, and testified that an expletive-filled tirade from chairman Bill Gates was a low point before he defected to rival Google,” The Associated Press reports.
“In testimony during a hearing on Microsoft’s lawsuit against Lee and Google, Lee said on Tuesday he wrote a memo to another Microsoft executive saying he was ‘deeply disappointed at our incompetence in China – that we have wasted so many years in China with little to show for it.’ Lee went on to say in the email that he was embarrassed by Microsoft’s business practices and that people in the government joked about Microsoft’s internal politics,” The Associated Press reports. “He testified that one of the lowest moments of his career with Microsoft was a conversation in which Gates yelled at him and said the company had been ‘f—–‘ by the Chinese people and its government. Lee did not clarify the context of Gates’ comments.”
The Associated Press reports, “Redmond-based Microsoft has sued Google and Lee, who is known for his work on computer recognition of language, a key problem in search technology. Microsoft contends that Lee’s duties would violate the terms of an agreement he signed as part of his Microsoft employment contract. Microsoft also accused Lee of using insider information to get his job at Google… Attorneys for Google said in court on Tuesday that much of what Lee knew about the Chinese market came from his previous work experience at Apple Computer and other companies, and that Microsoft was exaggerating the extent of his work for Microsoft on China.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: F bomb this, f bomb that. These are the sounds of implosion, boys and girls. And we are grinning ear to ear. Keep concentrating on Google, guys. It’s all about Google. Google, Google, Google…
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Whatsamatta, PC Apologist, don’t like implosions?
Why the hell would MDN ever stop publishing unflattering pictures next to negative articles about Gates, Ballmer, Glaser, etc. when everyone, but you, LOVES it when they do!
hey Micrococks!! SUFFER IN YA JOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
youre going down baby, down, down, down!!!! ohh yeaaaa!!!!
Not a thread that MDN can be too proud of…
But I’ll be delighted as the next person at an MS implosion. Particularly if it begins with its Windows code.
I’m just glad someone did and hope it the start of a very large trend.
I’m just glad someone did and hope it the start of a very large trend.
I’m just glad someone did and hope it the start of a very large trend.
If it’s OK for the world’s richest man to say it, then I don’t see one fucking problem using the world fuck whenever I fucking want to. Got a fucking problem with that? Fuck you.
I feel so much better now that it’s out of my system.
Fucking eh.
We are all being f**ked by the Chinese, or rather by our governments desire to have China as a ‘trading partner’ at all costs, when the country has all sorts of restrictions
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yeah right.. the US is stubborn as hell, demanding the Chinese revalue their currency.. if you’re worried that the US is being pushed around by the Chinese.. I assure you, they are not.
And besides.. who says the US is full of commodity/production line jobs.. ?
the US is a first world country, with a public education system that ensures people can participate in the service sector, meaning.. service sector employees are NOT worried about job security to the chinese..
if you work in a US ‘sweatshop’.. you might wanna crack open a book..
Seems like the pot calling the kettle black.
I’m sure there’s plenty of mainland Chinese who would say, “You feel like you’ve been f_cked by the Chinese government, Bill? Welcome to the club.”
In System Preferences>Sharing>Firewall>Advanced>Enable Firewall logging
Check the log a couple of hours later.
Where’s the ‘Advanced’ button?
M$’s new slogan:
“Who do you want to f-ck today?”
In System Preferences>Sharing>Firewall>Advanced>Enable Firewall logging
Check the log a couple of hours later.
Where’s the ‘Advanced’ button?
Assuming you are running 10.4.x , it is in the the Firewall tab under the New… Edit… Delete buttons
D’oh! I’m still on 10.3.9
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Thanx anyway.
I’ll find another way.
I LOVE THAT PICTURE! As Paris Hilton would say, that’s hot.
Microsoft may fall but ALL of you should kiss Bill’s ass for what Microsoft has done for the industry. Their hunger to be on top created competition and made products better. Don’t you guys remember Lotus 123 and Word Perfect?
It won’t be long before you guys will be bitchin about Google. Just curious…are all of you just a bunch of whinny Democrats?
GOOGLE SUCKS MY LEFT TESTIE
Microsoft RULES! and Apple drools…
Yes microsoft has done some good in the 80’s stabilizing the computer busness. But now there being just bitch.
It warms the cockles of my heart when I hear bill.
smack his head againsted the wall.
Not like he has to really worry about anything. He’s worth billions.
Many of my jobs and my college education were based in Microsoft products, lets not be too critical. So the man has some money, can you even imagine the good he has done for the USA?
My counterargument to the above:
Look how many other US companies were damaged or destroyed by MS unethical and sometimes illegal business practices. It could be (and has been) argued that MS has stifled innovation and setback software evolution by using unethical business practices to crush competition.
Just my opinion, but I’m not the only one who sees it that way.
>It won’t be long before you guys will be bitchin about >Google. Just curious…are all of you just a bunch of >whinny Democrats?
Randite Bastards For Jesus
“Fuck you!” says Cheney too.
Well, here’s something to make you all smile…I bought my first Apple product three days ago; a 20″ iMac, and all I can say is “why the hell did I wait this long?” There is such an astonishing difference in performance between this and even the “high performance” PC with Vista et al that I use at work, that it baffles me why Apple doesn’t have even more market share. From the sounds of frustration coming from Bill “F” Gates, maybe things are turning.