http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/microsoft-hamster-wheels/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/microsoft-hamster-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 22:58:19 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=490#comment-967 And those 50000 ‘new’ jobs will be at the expense of 50000 other jobs (possibly not all IT-related) for which the budget will no longer be available.

]]> http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/miscellaneous/microsoft-hamster-wheels/comment-page-1/#comment-966 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 20:39:32 +0000 http://kalyr.co.uk/wordpress/?p=490#comment-966 The other thing I see overlooked is when Microsoft talks about “50,000 new jobs,” they make it sound like 50,000 previously unemployed people will now get jobs. In reality, almost all of those jobs are just going to go to people who already worked in the IT industry, and will retool their skills so they can add Vista to their resumes.

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