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by James Robertson.
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I saw this news yesterday - Microsoft laid this guy off because of a picture he posted to his blog. The issue seems to be security - MS is a large company with a number of enemies, and they have policies dealing with physical plant security - i.e., no photos. This photo seems pretty inocuous, but it also looks like they were simply following policy. It's another thing you have to be careful about in corporate blogging - bottom line, you kind of need to imagine that everything you write is actually a phone call at corporate headquarters - and ask yourself whether such a phone call would be appropriate.
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