[bagrow]

Reminds me of the old (2003) story where a brand new Microsoft employee blogged a photo of some pallets of Power Macs he saw on the company campus, “Looks like someone is getting some new toys!” Or something to that effect. He was quickly fired.

https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-fires-w...

[Maxious]

That photo was the earliest confirmation of these dev boxes: https://www.xenonwiki.com/Alpha#History

A mirror of the post on slashdot he seems to think they were for the Mac Business Unit, only now I think we can see why they were worried: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83988&cid=7337263

Rabid gamers have been known to acquire dev kits before especially if they might open the door to homebrew... https://www.neogaf.com/threads/xbox-one-dev-kit-leaker-makes...

[hadrien01]

> 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons Sorry, this content is not available in your region.

Does anyone have another link?

[mises]

http://web.archive.org/web/20040927081520/https://www.michae...

[sciurus]

And the pay about being fired: http://web.archive.org/web/20041101091454/http://www.michael...

[xkcd-sucks]

Interesting, where are you located? I can read it from USA New York area

[hadrien01]

France. I guess they don't want to comply with GDPR.