Microsoft burgled, only the APPLE iPADS stolen - cops confirm
A savvy sneak slipped into a Microsoft campus, stole five iPads and left all the Microsoft products untouched, according to cops. More than $3,000 in Apple kit was nicked from the research and development complex in Mountain View, California, over Christmas. There was no sign of a forced entry at Building 5 on La Avenida Street …
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Re: Microsoft Research burgled - only iPads taken!
".....Another Microsoft EPIC FAIL." Are you saying a sneak thief is going to try walking out of a building with one server under his arm (yeah, fanboi, go look it up, you run business applications on them and they tend to be a bit too bulky to just stuff under a jacket) or pinch some thin tablets he knows he can sell to some fanbois? If anyone is demonstrating fail then it is yourself.
Re: Microsoft Research burgled - only iPads taken!
@Matt Bryant - Servers? Presumably the place is crawling with MS Surfaces, tablets and laptops. If not, then no one at MS Research wants a Surface and the like and prefer iPads. Either way, it's damning.
Re: Microsoft Research burgled - only iPads taken!
@ Eadon - If you had read the story correctly you would have seen that this was the campus where they create the MS products for Apple kit (ie MS Office and so on). So no its not likely they would have had anything but Apple kit laying around.
Fail on you... RTFA...
Re: Microsoft Research burgled - only iPads taken!
"@Matt Bryant - Servers?......" Read the article FFS! It says:
"The iPads may have been the obvious thing to steal in Building 5: that's the place where Microsoft, whose headquarters are in Redmond, develops software for Apple hardware. It's possible the thief has got hold of some unreleased Microsoft apps with his or her Apple devices. The office also houses Microsoft Exchange hosting servers, a less tempting target for a light-fingered thief."
Sounds like there was little in the building other than iPads and hosting servers. Now, concentrate real hard - if you are a sneak thief looking to make a quick and easy score, would you swipe the tablets that can be hidden easily in a backpack or even under your cost, or spend time unpacking, decabling and then try sneaking out of the building with an 18in rack server that would be too big to be hidden? If it's hosting kit it could probably be blade servers too, which would probably stymie a sneak thief as he'd probably know as little about them as a fanboi like you.
".....Presumably the place is crawling with MS Surfaces, tablets and laptops...." READ the article! it was a lab for developing apps for iOS, why would there be any Surface tablets there?
".....If not, then no one at MS Research wants a Surface and the like and prefer iPads. Either way, it's damning." The only thing that is damning is your desperate attempts to justify a failure to read and comprehend the article. Back under your iBridge, troll.
Re: Microsoft Research burgled - only iPads taken!
Yes, it's damning that there exists one person in the world who prefers ipads, when offered them for free. Clearly that complete actual evidence like the hundreds of millions who use Android instead of ios on mobile, or Windows on desktop/laptops.
And clearly he wanted all five for himself, he couldn't have possibly been taking them to sell, which would mean simply taking a product that was more easily recognisable with a "expensive product" logo, and easy to sell due to the higher profit margin (thus more room for black-market-selling, presumably). I mean, if someone offered me an ipad for free (legitimately bought!), sure I'd take it, so I could sell it. That's hardly a ringing endorsement.
I'd take an iphone 5 for free over a Nexus 4 or S3, even though I way prefer Android, and would much prefer the latter as a phone - because I could sell the former for more money.
There were also likely plenty of Android phones and other devices around too (since there were ipads, it's not true that there's only MS equipment there). Is it also damning of Android?
Why are there quotations marks around iPad 4
and not iPad 3 as well? Neither the third or fourth iPads were designated "iPad 3" or "iPad 4", so why single one out?
"It's possible the thief has got hold of some unreleased Microsoft apps with his or her Apple devices."
Surely a pun unless MS is now developing Office for the iPad??
Yes and this it hitting you for not paying attention at school.
Karma, not kama!
@Will Godfrey re 'Kama'
The Wikipedia entries for 'Kama' are wide ranging. My favourite is :
"Kama is translated from Sanskrit as pleasure, sensual gratification, sexual fulfillment or the aesthetic enjoyment of life."
"Yes and this it hitting you..."
First law of corrections - when you smugly point out an error, you will make a mistake in your correction....
Yes, and this is it hitting you...
I suspect
it was Ballmer. Better look for them outside the window.
Elementary
"There was no sign of a forced entry at Building 5 on La Avenida Street, whose staff use electronic cards to enter the offices, said Sgt Sean Thompson."
and
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20020541-71.html
Elementary Dr Watson: it was an inside job.
Melinda is putting her foot down.
Re: Elementary
That's strange...whenever my Dr Watson runs, I just get error messages. How do you enable the sentience feature...?
This is exactly why Microsoft have lost their way as of recent.
... too much crApple hipster influence that has caused all common sense to be thrown out the window.
Re: I love it when they steal rich tat
Jealous? Get a job m8.
Yeah right
This was obviously just the cleaner who has thrown all the useless rubbish away.
Re: Yeah right
NO! Not at all Steve Ballmer is still there!
Receivers of stolen goods prefer Apple....
This story only goes to prove that thieves and criminal fences prefer to steal for the Orchard...
Sad sack
This is a funny story, but it kind of makes you feel bad for Microsoft, who can't seem to do a single thing right these days.
Over the holiday, I was at two shopping centers that had both a microsoft store and an apple store, and I felt so sorry for the guys working the microsoft store (the staff WAY outnumbered the customers, while at the apple store, you could hardly get in the door it was so packed) that I almost bought a surface out of pity. ALMOST.
Re: Sad sack
@Pet Peeve, why feel bad for Microsoft? They copy, they bully, they embrace extend and extinguish, they're by far the dirtiest player in Silicon Valley. Nokia is their latest victim via their Trojan, Stephen Elop. They attack Android and Linux with patent trolling and patent threats. Microsoft's history is just shameful, and they are unembarrassable. They've made a lot of enemies and now the bad karma is coming back at them.
Re: Sad sack
Before Christmas the Apple store in Southampton was so horrific that I ended up getting my iPad in Tesco instead. Same price + double clubcard points!
Mind you, half the problem with the Apple store is the crowd of students outside leeching the free wi-fi. One was just walking around in the main thoroughfare with giant headphones on, oblivious to everyone, and talking to someone using the video conference app.
Re: Sad sack
...but it kind of makes you feel bad for Microsoft
No it doesn't.
I might feel a little embarrassed for the Microsoft staff in the scenario you describe above.
However, I have over 20 years experience of working in IT and as such, I will never, ever feel anything for Microsoft.
Re: Sad sack
I used to shop at that store in Southampton. Until one of the Apple employees suggested I go buy the kit a couple of shops down in John Lewis where they are happy to give you a two year warranty, and will not not need threatening with the law should you need to use it. A jolly helpful apple drone - I was surprised.
I heard they broke back in the day after and returned all the copies of Windows 8 they took.
Reminds me of an item in the news about 20 years or so ago...
...when a New Orleans Saints fan, fed up with the team's consistently poor performance, deliberately left his season tickets on the dashboard of his car with the door unlocked, in the hopes they'd be stolen. When he returned some hours later, he found that someone had entered his car and left a second set of Saints season tickets on the dashboard next to his own.
No, seriously, New Orleans really was playing that badly back then.
They left the MS products because they are too hard to fence. If the police stopped every one with a Surface, the thieves wold be caught in no time at all; probably would only need to stop about 10 people or so before the stolen goods were found.
I bet the footage shows it was Ballmer. He is probably out in some field going Office Space on them.
B'WAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAHHH
HA HA ha ha ha hah hah, heh heh...
That is all.
Second prize?
As the saying goes, Second prize is a week in (name your ugly town), and first prize, you ask? That is TWO weeks in (name your ugly town).
So, second prize in this case is a Surface tablet, and first prize is many Surface tablets. Not an iPad to be seen!
Maybe thieves do have smarts, but I doubt it!
Why the burglars avoided the Microsoft products
Lack of demand = no resale value.
It was probably a cover
..as John McAfee's agents stole in and installed invisible keyloggers on all the Surface tabs, and his camouflaged trojans wouldn't run on Apple kit.
Context
It's a shame it's not as funny when you read the context -
"the place where Microsoft, whose headquarters are in Redmond, develops software for Apple hardware. It's possible the thief has got hold of some unreleased Microsoft apps with his or her Apple devices. The office also houses Microsoft Exchange hosting servers, a less tempting target for a light-fingered thief."
So they got into a place which left them a choice of tablets, probably all of them were Apple, or the alternative was some probably rack mounted servers. It's an easy choice for a thief.
Re: Context
also, who would steal an Exchange Server apart from a serious masochist (who might enjoy trying to smuggle it out on his person), even if it's one of the 18" rack mounts Mr Bryant mentioned ..
Stop being cruel to CEOs
They are the true wealth creators. Without them, nothing would happen. Ever. They deserve our total adoration and we must continue giving them even larger amounts of money and other gifts. Otherwise, these Gods will frown on us and deliver thunderbolts from the skies, pestilence on our farms and plagues on our houses.
Re: Stop being cruel to CEOs
"...they are the true wealth creators."
Absolutely true, particularly with regard to their own wealth.
Amazing
Almost a year after Elop's burning platform speech, and people are still venting their frustration about Nokia's switch to WP. And I understand completely. You can pry my N9 from my cold dead hands!
Thieves aren't that bright though
Whilst working for a reseller, someone broke into the warehouse overnight and stacked up boxed, brand new laptops to reach some low end end PC's which were up on the shelving
What's with all the comments about Elop not being a good CEO...
Elop was NEVER a CEO... he was always and remains a Microsoft Executive.
The fact that he's an employee of Microsoft who happens to be running another company for them doesn't change what his actual job is...
Thief took what he knew wouldn't stand out in a crowd and would sell quickly and cheaply to someone who didn't really care what they were getting and wouldn't ask too many questions...
"someone who didn't really care what they were getting and wouldn't ask too many questions..."
A fanboi, in other words.
Theft or....?
Did a senior manager pop over for a visit, and chucked away a few things he didn't think ought to be there....
Hmm, who else in Mountain View has been accused of stealing software in the past and might be interested in progress of Microsoft Office on iPads?
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