From: Kenneth Tilton
Subject: What part of crashing and burning...
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:31:02 +0000
Message-ID: <49a9ad14$0$5906$607ed4bc@cv.net>

..does this guy not understand?

"The Meteoric Rise of Microsoft Research: An Oral History"
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/15_msrhistory.aspx

• Re: What part of crashing and burning... GP lisper
• Re: What part of crashing and burning... Vend

From: GP lisper
Subject: Re: What part of crashing and burning...
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:19:58 +0000
Message-ID: <slrngqofre.6b6.spambait@phoenix.clouddancer.com>

On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:31:02 -0500, <·········@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> ..does this guy not understand?
>
> "The Meteoric Rise of Microsoft Research: An Oral History"
> http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/15_msrhistory.aspx

hey, do they have the sequel in print yet?  I thought the working title was
"The Lightspeed Collapse of Microsoft, AKA the Google Braindrain".

Did anyone total the number of times Allen trashed an office over an
employee going to Google?


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From: Vend
Subject: Re: What part of crashing and burning...
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:11 +0000
Message-ID: <e3d6b29f-4440-4e03-afee-be56b424aa08@c11g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>

On 28 Feb, 22:31, Kenneth Tilton <·········@gmail.com> wrote:
> ..does this guy not understand?
>
> "The Meteoric Rise of Microsoft Research: An Oral History"http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/15_msrhistory.aspx

me·te·or·ic  (mt-ôrk, -r-)
adj.
[...]
3. Similar to a meteor in speed, brilliance, or brevity: a meteoric
rise to fame.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/meteoric