Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State's Budget 126
reifman writes "The Seattle Times reports, 'For the first time in state history, the Washington state budget is being written by Microsofties,' Representative Ross Hunter has 'tamed his Microsoft-style head-butting with a politician's trust-building.' Senator Andy Hill is 'the first Senate budget chair ever to request Excel files instead of paper spreadsheets.' 'The two must find $1 billion in new money for the state's K-12 system.' Unfortunately, The Times neglects to mention that Hunter and Microsoft are among those behind the deficit and cutbacks in the first place. Hunter helped pass the amnesty bill for Microsoft's $1.5 billion Nevada tax dodge ($4.37 billion if you include impacts from its lobbying to reduce tax rates) that contributed to $4 billion in cuts to K-12 and higher education since 2008. The state has resorted to using Yelp to tax dancing to try to make up the shortfall (for real)."
Re:First it was Nokia, now Washington state (Score:3, Interesting)
Microsoft killed Nokia because it wanted to kill Nokia. That was obvious as it was happening.
I'm not a fan of their technology at all, but they do know how to make money quite well and there's no reason to believe that their financial managers are incompetent or irresponsible with their own interests.
Re:Ob (Score:4, Interesting)
No that is not the user's fault. When there is an error state and the program doesn't indicate that there is an error state, that is bad design.