Among those inconvenienced by the shortage has been Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s chief executive officer. Ballmer said last week that his children had yet to get an Xbox 360 because he hadn’t been able to buy one and Sarbanes-Oxley rules prevented him from getting a free console.
“He’s right, he’s a section 16 officer that operates under Sarbanes-Oxley,” said [Microsoft’s home and entertainment division v.p. Peter] Moore. “I can’t give him one, even if I had one, because he can’t accept it and I don’t think he pre-ordered it from our local BestBuy, which he lives pretty close to, so Steve is [out of luck] right now.”
Mind you, this was from Dec. 12 of last year. I think it's probably likely that Ballmer somehow got his hands on one, Sarbanes-Oxley be damned.
Me, no such luck. Future Shop and BestBuy don't anticipate a steady supply of them until the end of the month. This had better have been worth it.
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Nothing micro sludge makes is the least bit interesting to me.
That predator is offline here forever.
I much prefer Firefox, Ubuntu Linux, Open Office and other free ware that are not owned and controlled by people who intend to make you pay for things that should be free or very low cost to begin with.
Posted by Moi | February 26, 2006 9:49 PM
Posted on February 26, 2006 21:49