A Cruel Blow

Thieves raid Microsoft's R&D centre in Palo Alto. They only take $3000-worth of kit. But they do millions of dollars of damage to Microsoft's marketing.

Lovely story in the Guardian.

(And it just shows, by the way, the power of press reporters. This would have been a thoroughly uninteresting story if Angela Ruggiero, who wrote the original piece in the Palo Alto Daily Post, hadn't picked up on this particular twist.)

 

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