IT-Business
Auch ein Micosoft-Job: Linux-Games spielen
"They're going to put all these total idiots on overpowered machines."
Wie Blackserver/linux/
berichtet, hatte ein
Loki-Support-Techniker kürzlich nicht irgendeinen "Newbie" in der Leitung. Dieser
Neuling entpuppte sich laut
Slashdot
als
Microsoft-Mitarbeiter, der Probleme beim Installieren von
CivCTP
(Civilization: Call to Power) für Linux hatte.
Wie sich im Laufe des Gesprächs herausstellte, arbeitet
der Mitarbeiter des Softwaregiganten Microsoft an einer
Brauchbarkeitsstudie:
"This machine is going to used for ... well, I'm a
Microsoft employee and my group is doing a usability
study on Linux".
Das Resüme des Loki-Technikers:
"He had absolutely no idea where the game had been
installed, and didn't know how to search for it ...".
Der Mann hatte keine Ahnung. Was wiederum wilde
Spekulationen der Slashdot-Community hervorrief. Was
bedeutet es, wenn "Big Bill" "Game-Newbies" brandneue
Pentium III, 450 Mhz, mit dem OS Linux überläßt, die
keine Handbücher, How-To's oder README-Dateien
lesen, um schließlich eine "Usability Study" zu
verfassen?
Hier einige Statements:
"Weil ein ahnungsloser Newbie ein typischer
Microsoft-User ist."
"They're going to put all these total idiots on overpowered
machines. They're going to have them use Linux for a
few weeks. Then Windows 2000 for a few weeks.
Release the 'study' as 'fact' and genuine 'scientific
research' in their battle against all unixes."
"Microsoft is checking out the competition. I don't see
anything unusual here ... standard business practice."
"In fact, who do you think MS would hire to study Linux?
Developers? No way! Once they got a hold of Linux they'd
never go back to Windows."
"It seems to me that the guy from Microsoft could have
just as well been testing various support departments to
see how much support you could get." (
Blackserver
)