I love Robert X. Cringely! If you have not read the columns from this “mysterious” columnist in InfoWorld, you ought to begin to! They always have some tongue-in-cheek commentary. In today’s post, the Cringester makes a good jab at Microsoft, as he often does…

If you’re interested in more articles from the Cringester, check out his column at: Notes from the Field.

Today, Mr. Cringely noted that Bill Gates said he considered the cup still to be three-quarters full with regard Microsoft’s Longhorn, in light of the recent announcement that a major element of Longhorn, the WinFS data storage system, would be axed. Further, he noted that a source informed him that Microsoft developers on the Redmond campus would no longer be required to wear pants. He quickly quipped that the employees would thus comparably be only three-quarters clothed. Lol, I guess you had to be there to really get a laugh out of that, but I was dying in my office chair.