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

An 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