Posts by Innique

Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial

I worked for this ass hat and he was shopping the company the whole time. Larry Ellis at Oracle still has his pitch on Powerpoint. Smart guy, but no business ethics, gee that's not happening like all over the internet it's the wild west, what's legal in India is not legal in the states or Europe and they treat every country like they are the same.

More layoffs at Microsoft: What's really going on here?

MS Needs Broken Up

Just a matter of time before a Ma Bell break up comes. Europe is two steps ahead. How can you say they don't have an anticompetitive stance when I could for 5 years threaten a few more percentage points if they didn't buy my latest and greatest.

US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs

Re: Non compete clauses only benefit one side

In grad school we learned that your the odds of an employer winning in court for the non compete are slim to non, you can not deny person the right to work. But for years I told my employer to tell my engineers to sign a non compete as it is a mind trick, if they think they have a non compete it will make them think twice. Predatory business practice and stealing a former employers account list and customers is another situation. When you leave know you can not take significant business with you in a region, but telling me I can't work across the US is not defensible in court, you can not negate my relationships at major customers like ATT or Disney.

Now go after the do not work here clauses.

I know they are not defensible in court and just a jedi mind trick, but get rid of the do not work here clause when you force someone into an exit package. AWS and Microsoft have so many companies they are invested in that when they put that in a separation contract it rules you out from a half dozen other companies in IT. Just make them stop.

Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets

Ex Enron Employees

Did they hire those ex Enron Employees? Hey Jeff do maintenance on tower three or change your timesheet to make us more money, sounds a lot alike.

It took Taylor Swift deepfake nudes to focus Uncle Sam, Microsoft on AI safety

The issue needs a legislative intervention. Who do you sue for slander if not the platform, you have made the internet so anonymous it is a bigger problem. Oh I will just verify everyone that post, really ya the people getting hacked on FB aren't enough to show that it is easy enough to do. https://www.wired.com/story/indias-government-wants-total-control-of-the-internet/, foreign governments are affecting the US, obvious or not. TS is only bringing light to the situation, but have no doubt someone will make a Biden falling down video that isn't real for the election.

That's not the web you're browsing, Microsoft. That's our data

What the industry is doing essentially with the insider or access to massive amounts of data amounts to price fixing.

I don't think anyone cares, but the amount of insider information I had on an account say an AWS or Google account was aniticompetitive, I am talking way beyond Hard Hanks, Rainmakers, Star Reports. It's all about data and that data is for sale and MS can afford it even if they don't have it in house. You want to break in an account use your ownership in Linkedin and hire the guy that has the connections. Goes way deeper on the anti competitive level that the customer has no idea about. You think that is the reason why the CEOs of Tesla and Google aren't on Linkedin....asking for a friend.

Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink

Saw this coming 5 years ago in Vegas. Just like those Avatar thingies and Cortana. I could do what they were doing on a Raspberry Pi for 50 bucks where they wanted over $400 for the devices. Total disconnect, what makes MS is similar to Apple, styling and brand, but an IoT device who cares what it looks like it's gonna be at the bottom of a well. The interface would have been cool, but they didn't open source it, Linux and readily available code kills the MS IoT platform. I installed Windows on my Raspberries and it was easy on cookie cutter applications, but not so on one off or customizable setups. IoT is big, but hardware is all coming from the same place and let's not make a decision on how pretty it is.

Snow day in corporate world thanks to another frustrating Microsoft Teams outage

I wonder if this affected the Activiision COD servers as the kids were complaining the servers were lagging yesterday. Games being down is one thing, but a work environment is not ok, not with the work from home issues already present with internet connectivity issues. Bad weather causes water to expand when it freezes and a lot of cables and hardware don't like it. Rats are also a problem here in the Big D, one of my outside connectors was chewed a couple years ago.

Ex-IBM staff ask US Supremes for help in bringing age-discrimination battle to court

This is an issue not at just IBM but HP and Microsoft. How is it any of them in the settlement agreements can say if you want this money you have to agree to never work for us again. I know I signed the same thing at all three. Now MS owns Linkedin, Gethub, and soon Netflix, so my employment opportunities are limited, even though IBM has expressed interest in bringing me back. How is this still allowed and is it something you should be asking in your interview that you can not limit my rights by saying who I can and can't work for. It only takes one small minded manager to put you on the curb.

Google illegally refusing to bargain with employee union, says NLRB

Microsoft is not much better. They are using contractors and hiring people as hourly, hourly people that make 150k so it is easier to jettison them later. California took exception to their hiring practices so one way they avoid that is make all non management hourly. Essentially screwing the working class. Don't they already have the competitive advantage with all the cross selling. Stockholders are making money so no need to regulate them. Keep allowing the mergers and we all suffer as customers. COD is now Fortnite and Activision and MS have no business kicking the under 15 crowd off or kicking people for inappropriate, go on and just listen.

Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late'

Don't get me wrong, no one is getting fired for buying Microsoft, just like 20 years ago no one got fired for buying IBM, but I did use the oligopoly positioning to close Teams and other non enterprise infrastructure stuff by leveraging the Enterprise Agreement negotiation and any MS employee is lying if they say they don't use the enterprise positioning to close Teams, Dynamics, PowerBI deals.

What gets me is MS still forces Teams on you. Every new install I have to go out of my way to remove it from a Windows 11 install. How is it that Dell and other manufacturers allow this as they are leveraging their dominance on the Operation software to push the other products it's the same thing they got in trouble with regarding IE yet it is still going on. EU is on it and just a matter of time before the US get's it stuff together.

Cloud washes Dell off perch atop storage market

I agree the Dell EMC numbers are going to be off. Even if you just take what happened when Oracle bought Sun, customers took a wait and see approach. I'm not buying EMC or Dell until I know how this all washes out. Also think of all those vested stock holding EMC people that checked out to.