Was Vista rushed so Senior VP could accept Amazon’s millions?

Brian ValentineAn interesting article appeared on Slashdot today which suggests that perhaps Microsoft’s Sr. VP Brian Valentine pushed Vista into RC1 status prematurely in order to be free to leave Microsoft and able to meet the terms of his Employment Agreement for his new job at Amazon. The job that would see him receiving a $1.7M signing bonus, $150K salary, and 400K shares of stock (Now worth $30M)

I gotta admit though… Could you really fault him? I’d probably have done the same thing. A choice between a sinking ship and a new job, + millions of dollars isn’t much of a choice at all.

Read the article on SlashDot.Org

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2 Responses to “Was Vista rushed so Senior VP could accept Amazon’s millions?”

  1. tomax7 Says:
    March 21, 2008 at 8:25 am

    …any updates on this? The guy should be hung and quartered so to speak.

  2. vistasucks Says:
    March 21, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    The only way you’ll ever get an update on this is if Brian Valentine decides one day to admit that it’s true.

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