Microsoft Can't Handle Competition

It seems Steve Ballmer got a little hot under the collar when he found out that an employee was leaving to go work for Google:

He also threw a chair across the room. Wow.

And in other news, OpenOffice.org, now being released under the LGPL, is part of the second Boston Tea Party. The Secretary of Administration & Finance for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts said:

Desktop software that supports OpenDocument and PDF in the future is acceptable; Microsoft's proprietary XML formats are not.

Hey, there we go, vendor lock-in is bad. Way to go Massachusetts! Microsoft is unhappy about the state switching to open standards. Its starting to look like competition is just something that pisses Microsoft off to no end. Imagine if your local pizzeria had this attitude towards the Pizz Hut across town?