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Re: The borg’s coffee sucks, new employee says

Annie — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:03:29 -0000

KPMG SUCKS especially here in Canada

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Jude — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:01:01 -0000

This company sucks, The office culture sux and why work for a company that don't treat their employees right - canadianboy09

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welch — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:16:36 -0000

I'm love this great website. Many thanks guy

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scobleizer — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:23:40 -0000

Adam: in a later post I linked to Marissa's post.

Free snacks? Oh, that would be cool, but would be guaranteed to help me put on even more weight.

Over in our offices in Copenhagen they have free candies, though. Yummy!

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Adam — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:05:08 -0000

Hey Scoble,

I continue to like your blog stuff. If anything, the volume's a bit much for me to catch up with, but if I want to read about primarily all the technical specifics of different MS stuff, I'll read some MSDN blogs. I like the semi-randomness of your blog.

With that said, I think your dig about Google wasn't quite on the mark. Marissa and others have noted that Google won't get cluttered with banner ads.

With that said, I'm still concerned about the Google/AOL alliance for other reasons (many of which have been elucidated by other commentators and commenters), but I'll remain cautiously optimistic for the time being.

As for coffee... hmm... I didn't have any during my recent visit to the Evil Empire, but I noticed that y'all don't offer any free snacks. Maybe I've gotten spoiled from the consulting I've done for smaller companies, but shouldn't MS at least be offering free sugar and protein stuff to keep their coders fueled and happy? Surely the cost-benefit ratio would be favorable? :D

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J.P. — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:44:59 -0000

Who cares whether we should or should not talk about coffee. For some it makes the world go around. And when its as bad as it is at work...that makes it worth writing about.

http://www.jpstewart.org/cg...

J.P.

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David Rossiter — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:25:03 -0000

In my world (analyst relations) the borg is Gartner!

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Paul Montgomery — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:26:38 -0000

Re Bill's blog: hah, a Web page written in Notes! How 1997. It even qualifies as uglier than the average Notes-produced page, which is saying something.

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scobleizer — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:00:38 -0000

Bill, after reading your comment I thought "damn, here's a guy who probably has a really killer tech blog." So, I went over and checked it out. What do I find? A post titled "what a fantastic day" where you talk about a nice box of chocolate.

So, kettle, how does it feel to be black? ;-)

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Wild BIll — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:29:01 -0000

"We're Microsoft. We have 30 BILLION dollars in the bank. We throw away 12 THOUSAND man years effort (vista reset?). We're more evil than the rest of the software industry put together. We're innovators.

And yet all we can talk about is how shit the coffee is"

Discuss.

Conclusion: Microsoft has lost its Mojo, and now its ability to spin silk out of shit. Big style.

Honestly.

Scoble. Your just drivelling.

You're supposed to be the leading light, The RSS-aware influencer, the geek within the machine - the industry analyst who is turning around this impression that MS is staffed from the neck up with dribbling idiots with no clue and less morals.

Get with it, else you'll get a stack ranking of 3.0 and have to HAND OUT the coffee in future. (Woops. was that a Mini-Microsoft reference?)

Honestly. I come here for the "energiser-bunny-on-speed MS is *fantastic*", "my wife is a better blogger than me", "Ohhh! RSS!", "My our current products suck big time, but look at whats coming next! Dont leave!" and "look who I'm having dinner with - ooooOOOoo!" news, and all we get is shitty coffee stories ?

Sigh. You just cant get the staff.

---* Bill
http://www.billbuchan.com

P.S. This has been cut down dramatically from its originally sarcastic tone.

Re: The borg’s coffee sucks, new employee says

Andy Kaufman — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:05:18 -0000

We have Peets at the office and let me tell you that having good coffee is a huge morale booster.

Sometimes it's the deciding factor for me when I'm deciding whether to come into the office or work from home.

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Tris Hussey — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:09:04 -0000

Robert you might like this little coffee gadget:
http://www.liquidplanet.com...

I have a version that stores the coffee in the base.

Perfect cure for bad office coffee.

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Innocent Bystander — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:58:32 -0000

Dude, Starbucks has crappy coffee too. Did you not have a coffee in Paris while you were there? Any random cafe will have vastly better coffee at about 1/4th the price of Starbucks (which always tastes "burnt" to me).

Starbucks is to coffee what McDonalds is to hamburgers. I refuse to patronize either.

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John C. Welch — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:34:48 -0000

The "who's more evil" argument depends on your definition of evil.

From an interoperability standpoint, Microsoft is still far more evil.

However, I know who's been churning out more useful stuff that benefits more platforms, and it's not MS.

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Orbit — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:28:45 -0000

oh scoble you make me sick. go collect your Microsoft PR check

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Paul Montgomery — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 10:09:04 -0000

Maybe instead of the borg, Microsoft can be likened to King Kong: a huge gorilla that was scary in the past, and just got a makeover in a vain attempt to make it relevant for today. Unfortunately, the only opponents it can win against are dinosaurs. Put half a dozen little biplanes against it and it goes down like a sack of spuds.

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amorson — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 07:40:25 -0000

1. Microsoft is still the borg over the slashdot...

2. I can't recollect when Google said they will not have graphical ads. I might be wrong though, Please remind me.

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Christopher Coulter — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:02:16 -0000

Bad coffee and Google one-offs, glad you are able to focus on the important things that are happening.

No news allowed about Breda Pickering, eh? :)

Oh one thing you might take note of, Jeff Bewkes becoming TW head soon, which spells certain doom for MFST. But all with the Ian McAllister hints and rumors of some MFST conspiracy with another Tier 1, blah blah blah. And Vista CTP is make or break, if IT is not convinced and just upgrades with hardware, you are looking at a serious serious hit.

PS - The Windows Live Messenger beta pay for invites and general corruption is beyond crass. Shame.

Re: The borg’s coffee sucks, new employee says

Jake Ludington — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 02:35:20 -0000

Robert: I keep meaning to try Victors when I'm on the east side. I've heard it's awesome but don't get over there often enough.

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Evil ZEN Scientist — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:20:12 -0000

I always thought CA were the Borg..

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scobleizer — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:11:38 -0000

Jake: and I notice Victors made the coffee for Bill and Melinda Gates' wedding.

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Don McArthur — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 20:09:52 -0000

I've got an original, framed , "Boardwatch BillGatus of Borg" poster, a cherished memento of the last 20 years.

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Doug Mahugh — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:51:23 -0000

Good grief, is an observation about coffee really worth all the reaction/attitude? I mean, I've spent a lot more time and money this year blogging about Hurricane Katrina victims, including the ones I helped dig through the wreckage of their homes in the days immediately after it hit -- does that redeem my coffee comment?

Seriously, life's not full of heros and villians, there's some subtlety out there too, Dennis. And the lack of creativity in some parts of Microsoft isn't really that much bigger of an issue than the taste of the coffee, if you look at it from a perspective a little broader than the keyboard in front of you. Coffee and creativity are light-hearted discussion topics, not life-and-death issues.

Speaking of subtlety -- don't you think it's a bit obnoxious (and a waste of precious bandwidth) to cut and paste an entry from your own blog and post it as a comment on somebody else's blog? There's a concept known as linking that's really handy in such situations.

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John C. Welch — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:49:14 -0000

Starbucks is overroasted crap for people who think that coffee has to have a 10:1 ratio of sugary crap to coffee.

A well-blended, properly ground coffee that is brewed right can be consumed black. If you can't drink it black, it's crap.

Re: The borg’s coffee sucks, new employee says

Jake Ludington — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:15:35 -0000

As a regular visitor to the Microsoft campus, I tend to agree. The coffee is crap. So is Starbucks. If I remember correctly, the campus coffee is from a pair of agrarian gents. Microsoft would do well to cut a deal with local roaster Zoka, which happens to be home of two barista champions, and get some good coffee on campus.