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Subscribe to commentsNoCaDrummerJul 3rd 2008 4:38PM
Hmmm... Two things wrong with the list.
1) The article should have been the 10 Most Stubborn COMPANIES, since some pages had two or three people.
2) Neither Steve "chair-man" Balmer nor Bill Gates made the list. Anyone who has had to deal with Microsoft on trying to develop standards knows that, besides "embrace, extend, extinguish", if you CAN get them to sit down for a discussion, it's either Microsoft's way or no-way. Of course, they'll listen intently, then go off to develop the same thing, only with just enough quirks to make it incompatible with anyone else's work. But being a monopoly, you get to ram it down customer's throats because you can. Gotta love 'em. Or at least have some envy their power.
MattJul 7th 2008 2:34AM
I read the tiny blurbs about the "10" people you had listed, I clicked next each time so that you could successfully feed more ads and once I actually scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page, just to see how much completely pointless space you wasted by putting a single person per page.
While the "article" itself was interesting the shameless ad serving is pretty appalling.