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Troubling Exits At Microsoft

"To Ballmer's Chagrin, some of his up-and-coming programmers have left for Google. He was apoplectic about Lucovsky's departure, according to documents made public during the Lee trial. Lucovsky said in a sworn statement that after he told Ballmer about his plans to move to Google, the beefy CEO threw a chair and cursed Google's chief executive. "F__ing Eric Schmidt is a f__ing pussy. I'm going to f__ing bury that guy.... I'm going to f__ing kill Google," Ballmer said, according to Lucovsky. In a statement, Ballmer calls Lucovsky's account "a gross exaggeration of what actually took place.""

".. On Sept. 7, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Science &
Engineering Business Club held its annual recruiting barbecue, with
about a dozen companies setting up booths to recruit as many as 1,500
students. "There was a lot of buzz around the Google table and not a
lot around the Microsoft table," says Bob Richard, associate director
of employer relations at MIT. How much? When Richard walked through,
he says, students were lined up six deep to talk to Google recruiters,
while only two students stood at the Microsoft table..."