Ray Ozzie just wrote a windy farewell memo to Borg staffers, using 3,500 words to deliver a message that boils down to this:
We suck. I quit. Goodbye.
I tried to read the memo and couldn’t get past the first paragraph. But you go ahead and try. I dare you. Behold the inner workings of the mind that inflicted upon the world the tangled hairballs that were Lotus Notes and Groove.
If you ever wondered what’s gone wrong at Microsoft, just look at this memo. Seriously. It explains everything.
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