Time to sell your soul to the devil?
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
With employee stock grants in the offing, are you ready to walk the Redmond plank?
To join or not to join the ranks of the Evil Empire? That's a question that many in the tech industry have contemplated, at one time or another. With Microsoft's decision this week to grant employees shares of stock, rather than mere stock options, the question gets more interesting.
Former journalists, analysts, Microsoft competitors, Microsoft customers - probably many of the readers of this column - have toyed with the idea of what it would be like to work for Microsoft. I can count several former colleagues of mine who took the plunge (and are a lot richer for their decisions).