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It’s become a commonplace to state that we live in extraordinary times. Rather than merely assert this, however, it doesn’t take a lot of digging to find data: in nearly every year for the past 15, a new industry has been jump-started, an old one crippled, or a new way of looking at the world propagated.
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That may be a little over the top, but it’s a real question. And it is one posed by Microsoft to their employees. Microsoft had a simple fil-os-ofy about its employees. “We Own You.” You work night and day…you get your job done, and you get to say you work for us, the bestest, bigesst, smartest, doggon-it IT company in the World, may be even the solar system, or the Milky Way. Doggon-it were good.
But Microsoft may be changing it’s tune. Not the last part, for sure, because they will continue to say that it is true, but things have taken a turn because of the Windows Phone 7. If you have a smartphone, you probably have a lot of apps that you can use to check the news, play games, help with shopping or further a hobby like travel or bird-watching. But there aren’t enough of them out there, at least not to make a noticeable difference. So Microsoft is going to do something about it.
The Offering
Here is the offering. Because the Windows Phone 7 platform is new, developers have to learn its ways before writing many of those apps. Microsoft, to its credit, has taken an unusual step. It will let employees moonlight in their spare time and keep the resulting intellectual property and most of the revenue, as long as that second job is writing apps for Windows Phone 7-based devices. In other words, their strict employment rule about moonlighting is relaxed some what.
And here is another part. The employees won’t have to dodge their managers; they don’t have to do that work quietly. The company is advertising the performance with weekly pizza parties for workers who pitch in to write code for the platform and Microsoft is even planning ways to publicize their work, which includes posters and recognition awards. Microsoft even gave away free Windows 7-based phones to all employees in the 19 countries where the phones are available. Microsoft basically sees this as a Win-Win situation.
So Who Loves Ya Baby? Microsoft does.
Source: New York Times
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