pr0digal jenius

Microsoft's leafy corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, is beginning to look like the streets of New York, London and just about everywhere else: Wherever you go, white headphones dangle from peoples' ears.

To the growing frustration and annoyance of Microsoft's management, Apple Computer's iPod is wildly popular among Microsoft's workers.

"About 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have an iPod," said one source, a high-level manager who asked to remain anonymous. "It's pretty staggering."

The source estimated 80 percent of Microsoft employees have a music player -- that translates to 16,000 iPod users among the 25,000 who work at or near Microsoft's corporate campus. "This irks the management team no end," said the source.
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Source/Read More: wired

nForcer

And about the same number of Apple Computer employees own a PC.
I'd say its even.

pr0digal jenius

good point


wonder how many intel employees use AMD64...or nvidia employees on x800s, etc


It's ok though...it's all for "testing's sake"

WaltC

Sort of a silly story, really... Had to have been invented by an Apple fan, no doubt... I mean, considering that M$ doesn't even make a competitor to the iPod it's difficult to see why any of its managers would be irked by the little gadgets its employees might own to listen to music--unless use of them was interfering with their work. That would "irk" them, no doubt. Heh... Ah, it's always amusing to read these little partisan fantasies--which, unfortunately, practically never make any sense...

No_Style

I do wonder about the discount rates given to employees for all those big companies. I wouldn't mind 50% off of all ATI hardware. (I would also imagine that it is limit one per employee)

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