The Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) at Microsoft is growing and Microsoft is launching their “biggest hiring initiative since the inception of MacBU eleven years ago.”
According to Microsoft’s Craig Eisler, MacBU is “hard at work planning for products beyond Office 2008, and we are growing our team to help turn our vision into reality.”
“We offer the feel of a small company with a strong team culture of innovation, creativity, and creating great user experiences. We combine the power of Office with the latest Mac technologies to create world class products – we develop exclusively for Macs, and we love ’em,” Eisler blogs.
Eisler offers up some reasons to join MacBU, including:
• We are the brightest, coolest, and most interesting business unit at Microsoft – if we do say so ourselves
• One of the largest dedicated Mac software development organizations outside of Apple
• We work for Microsoft and we are proud of it!
So, if you can’t get a job at Apple, Microsoft’s MacBU is hiring for multiple roles (Program Managers, Developers, Testers, User Experience, and Marketing) in Redmond and Silicon Valley. Send your resume to
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Ampar” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Obviously, Microsoft can read the market share trend charts, too.
I don’t trust them. They’ll hire a Mac expert, then they will insert a nanobot inside his head to steal all the great creative ideas that only Mac users have. Then MS will copy and call it their own.
So does this mean that they’re gonna finally port Outlook, Access, Visio, Publisher, etc. to the Mac? Or that they’ll just keep adding bloat to Word, Excel, Power Point, and Entourage (while breaking simple things like search in the latter)?
Speaking of Microsoft: 8 Years of Wrongness the most hilarious take on Monkey Boy I’ve ever read.
I’ve met a couple of the MacBU people and they really are the best thing about Microsoft. They have a huge bank of Apple computers to test their software on. According to legend, they even made some amazing stuff for Word, but were told by Bill himself to knock it off. Any new features were going to come out for Windows first, not the Mac.
It’s a top priority because Messenger for Mac 8 needs to be even shinier.
“insert a nanobot inside his head”
They’re called ballmerbots. They’re designed to sweat the ideas out of you.
Patent pending.
“I don’t trust them.” – Jubei
Hi hi hi… and you’d rather trust Steve Jobs who screwed up is good friend Wozniak.
“Obviously, Microsoft can read the market share trend charts, too.”
I thought that said, “market trend chairs, too.”
… Redmond can’t get people that want to develop for the Mac OS to work for them. They:
A. Go to work for a 3rd party Apple developer
B. Work for Apple
C. Start their own company and build SW for the Mac (Pixelmator anyone?)
@ GRM
That’s really funny. When MS actually does innovate, their told to knock it off. Classic! I think that states the whole MS culture right there.
When Bill Gates’s away, the Macs will play.
Unless… OMG it’s a trap!
“So, if you can’t get a job at Apple, Microsoft’s MacBU is hiring for multiple roles … “
Yeh-heh-heh-hehessssssss . . . so in other words, if you can’t get a position working for de best, then why not come over here and apply for a job with de Federal government. You know, ’cause we’re actually trained TO SUCK! ! !
Microsoft kind of reminds me of Leno: No matter how many times he says he’s leaving, he just hangs around a little longer and tries to stick it to Conan. Bloated, graying, insulting, derogatory . . . and those are just his jokes!
And now Fallon’s taking over Late Night.
I weep for de children . . .
All programmers are already going for the iPhone SDK.
By the way…. NOOOO, it is not true that all developers of the Hacked iPhone are going for the Symbian-Nokia or android SDK. They are just going to put they apps on the APP store and presto!. Well, not all the apps will be approve by apple, but at least 90% of them are (I am saying that because I saw that notice in ENGADGET).
F*CK MICROSOFT. They’ve had YEARS to make Entourage as good as Outlook, and they NEVER have. Entourage PALES in comparison to Outlook. They have NEVER fixed major bugs in Word & Entourage that have been around since Word 98 and Entourage 2001! They have KILLED OFF every single Mac product outside of the Office suite. They do NOT care about their customers. GO TO HELL, MICROSOFT!
Seems a stupid move by Microsoft if you ask me.
I follow the advice of Afib (aka Ha, Ha and Ho, Ho [the last one being reference to his mother or something]) who – on the basis of some sort of insider knowledge – says that Mac sales are tanking and that Apple are fraudulently bilking their shareholders.
Poor Steve Ballmer, once again made to look foolish by the evil, convicted pescatarian, Steven P. Jobs. If only he had Afib by his side to help him through life’s rocky and dangerous waters.
So, if you can’t get a job at Apple,
-I think that phrase alone sums it all up
Mac+,
Woz refused to bow down and worship His Great Hucksterness (aka The Pompous Promoter aka The Mouth Without Measure aka The Hipster Hypester aka Lord Steve Jobs) and was excommunicated from the Fundamentalist Temple of Apple Drones, Fanbois, and Other Lap Dogs (aka Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA). According to Official Temple Rules, Policies, and Fiats, excommunication is “permanent” and “irrevocable”.
Yeah, MS makes a lot of $$$ selling MS software to Mac users which is interesting irony as the 2 companies compete but whatever.
I still think it’s good news as it’s a commitment by MS to continue to bring ‘office standard’ software to Macs and the business community will like that and see Macs as relevant enterprise-wise which is a good thing to me. Lots of people use stuff at work and then buy it for home. I did with an HP all-in-one printer.
Don’t buy MS products – (I think it’s still a free enough country that I can say that, right?).
On the other hand – cool (that MS makes Mac stuff). Even though I’m never going to buy anything MS every again.
Now if only I could get to that same point with Adobe – I’d be in Nirvana!
I think that Woz still is employed by Apple in some capacity isn’t he? He gets free stuff and a salary for doing virtually nothing these days, although he was obviously very important in founding AAPL. Salary and free gear for doing nothing – I wish Steve J. would do that to ME!
hi ho! how is the underside of the bridge?
“I’ve met a couple of the MacBU people and they really are the best thing about Microsoft.”
setting the bar pretty low there aren’t you GRM?
Does this mean that Microsoft will start writing Mac applications someone might actually WANT to use, instead of being FORCED to use?
Triumph writes, “Microsoft kind of reminds me of Leno: No matter how many times he says he’s leaving, he just hangs around a little longer and tries to stick it to Conan. Bloated, graying, insulting, derogatory . . . and those are just his jokes!”
Oh, please… Leno has more natural comic talent in his chin than Conan has in his whole body. He was able to carry his show even during the writers strike (and his writers are very good). Jon Stewart would have been a better replacement. Watching Conan’s body preening and dumb schtick is not my idea of humor.
Ho, Ho says “blah, blah, blah, Steve Jobs, blah,”
I say Apple is now worth $154.86 billion making it the third most valuable player in the computing industry after Microsoft and IBM.
Oh yeah, Microsoft acquired iView Media Pro, renamed it Microsoft Expression Media and made ZERO changes apart from a yucky icon and horrible splash screen and named it version 1.9.
Now MS has released a version 2.0 “upgrade” to Expression Media. Yes, for $199 or a $99 upgrade fee, you get… drumroll…
A(nother) NEW and IMPROVED icon (still not 512 x 512 Leopard compliant) AND a(nother) new splash screen. Otherwise there is NOTHING different… menus, tools, NOTHING.
What kind of fools does MS think people… oops caught myself… of course MS survives with tactics like this. It’s 2.0, it MUST be better!
These days, there’s something creepy and weird about Microsoft having anything to do with the Mac.
They may be nice guys in the Mac BU, but until they get some balls and tell the management to stick Windows’ priority on features where the sun doesn’t shine, they won’t get my respect.