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outside1234
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Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of ex...
It sucks, is expensive, and was designed by someone who was fired.
lloydatkinson
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Do you have some sources? What was they fired for? I thought they got Leslie Lanport to design it
onionisafruit
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Let me take a wild guess. I bet they work for GitHub now.
edgyquant
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Why would he still work for Microsoft if he was fired?
panda88888
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He probably is jokingly referring to the Nokia acquisition, which at that time is ran by an ex-Microsoft executive, whom rejoins Microsoft after the acquisition.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/tech...
scns
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Sorry but small correction:
s/ran by/ran into the ground by/g
panda88888
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Oh yes, I forgot about that important detail. MS was able to buy at a greatly discounted price due to that.
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