craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 24 2009 | microsoft, yahoo!, newsOops. Not the kind of PR MSFT needs..
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft on Monday said it goofed in trying to get back money it overpaid departing employees in severance packages and sent word to the former workers to keep the cash.
The US software giant said that last week it told 25 recently-departed employees they had accidentally been paid too much in severance and that the overages should be returned to the company.
"This was a mistake on our part," a Microsoft spokesman said Monday in response to an AFP inquiry.
"We should have handled this situation in a more thoughtful manner. We are reaching out to those impacted to relay that we will not seek any payment from those individuals."
- craighal | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 25 2009 | yahoo!, internet, microsoft
Ugh. Not encouraging news. It makes one wonder though, how important is it really which browser people are using? Browsers may become irrelevant commodoties since it's really about the content that's being reached. What value add do the browsers offer? Speed? Security? Are the deltas really that big?
I certainly hope it doesn't come to commoditization or significant loss in market share. I'm confident that Microsoft can demonstrate that it's the best software maker in the world, and that browsing anything via IE is a superior experience. ;-)
Quoted: In February, I used a simple mathematical analysis to project that IE's days of domination are numbered. Put simply, if these trends continue, Microsoft's stronghold on the browser market will slip away sooner than most may think.
Quoted: So is the battle effectively over? Maybe. Given that IE 8 was hyped as the company's big leap into outperforming its competitors, and given the dismal results we're seeing so far, one has to wonder what further tricks Microsoft could possibly have up its sleeve.
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