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You missed your chance not just to inject venom but to drown your post in it. Bowman is smart to leave Google because, along with lousy coding skills and not giving a rat's ass about cripples, Google has no fucking visual taste. They have less taste than Microsoft, if a number that small can be imagined. A multi-billion-dollar behemoth with, in effect, a single graphic designer is a disgrace.
Bowman is not a disgrace. Disgrace and Bowman don't even fit in the same sentence together. If your report is true, he's going where he's wanted and where he can actually do something.