Mike Magee to leave the INQUIRER

Now what are we supposed to do? This is just like the movie Forest Gump when he was running for so long and all those people were following him. Then he just stopped and went home and everyone was like WTF?¿?

If he decides to leave he had better retire, because I'm not going to follow him to ANOTHER site.

Been here since story number one when you only had an IP address for access. Even wrote a few letters you published. Love the irrelevant... err... sorry, irreverant style, the silly humour, the gossip, the rumours, the intelligent conjecture, the spying all of it.

Fare well with whatever your new project is!

Good luck Mr Magee.

Good luck and best wishes to the Mageek, hope your new mysterious project goes well for you. Thanks for founding the Inq which has become a daily dose of fun and information to keep me (sort of) sane through the work days!

Well Mike thanks for all the years of your hard work and creativity.. good luck to you in your life. sorry i don't have much to say..

been a regular reader from the beginning.

I hope this is a joke. If it is not, I hail to the founder of a journalistic style which i try everyday to imitate as a journalist.

Good luck to Mike Magee.

Will be sad to see Mike leave after so long, having started this thing off with little more than his own determination and commitment to high-quality technology reporting with intergrerty.

Good luck with whatever you're doing next, Mike. We expect full notification through the pages of the Inquirer when whatever it is becomes public (or before!).

will miss you Mike, the inq will not be the same...

This is like when Elvis left the Beatles, things will never be the same.

Take care Mike - hope to see you in the odd Expo photo and charismatic write up once in a while. Hope those continuing on from you keep things in tight order. Certainly had a few minutes of entertaining and intuitive reading form you these past few years.

All the best.

In the name of INQ readers let me quote Darth Vader from Episode 3 :
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

nooooooooooo, April Fool is still a good 3 months away. theINQ will not be the same without Mike >.<.... his vision and humor will be missed :'(

Thats truly sad! I have always loved his "Ed" comment in the articles. That actually gives a finishing touch the write-up. So good things dont last so long, eh! All the very best to Paul Hales. His stories are witty enough but havent seen any for quite some time. 

Three Cheers for Maggi! 
Huzzah! Huzzah!! Huzzah!!!

Give 'em hell Mike! Good luck on your new venture!

It's been a lot of fun reading over the years. Best of luck for the future!

Mike did great things so far. If he chose to leave, he probably has a good reason for it, let's all wish him luck in whatever that is.

To tell u the truth,
Mike Magee without The Inquirer is like Pizza without the Pizza Hut; we know the pizza is good, but we also love the place; our hearts will be split into two...

Took you long enough :)

Good luck Mike, I have been reading your site daily now for the last 4 years and occasionally send a comment or two. I'm not going to change my home page for you. 

Has anyone else noticed all of the articles referring to people leaving Microsoft? Are you filling a vacancy Mike? It must have been their great health care plan.

I guess that's why he won't say why he's leaving.

:)

I read the INQ every morning to make me laugh, for the story that makes me think, and the techy gear too.

If you decide to start another e-rag, let everyone know.

Best to you and your family

This is a surprise? he sells the site to VNU, sticks around a bit then takes some of the the money to start a new project.
Only thing we are waiting for is for VNU to slowly degrade the inq as you would expect to happen.
These things happen constantly.

You'll be missed Mr. Magee

Since I am no longer his AMD mole, I can't give Mr. Magee any more scoops. Besides, who would I give scoops to now? Charlie?

I hope you have a great time doing whatever you're headed to next, it's been great reading the inq every morning for the past many years!


NO WAY!!! :-( 

I am a certified Mageek stalker 4 life, baybee! I'll find wherever you end up writing and will read it every goddamn day, no matter what anyone says or does!

YOU ROXOR, MAGEEK!!!

It is sad that all good jurnalists are going. Your site return me the faith in the good tech journalism. Hopefully the Inq will be as good in the future, as it was.

I hope you will be happy in your future life! All The best!

and BLIMEY! All the very best, Mike. May you never go short of a beer.

S

Perhaps the standard of reporting will improve as a result. His "quality" standards were poor at best and at times shockingly bad. Spelling and grammar mistakes galore often made the site painful to read. Good riddance.

the end of the world as we know it"...

b

Thanks for all the laughs and news over the years. Here's to your next endeavour.

I remember the early days were there was suddenly also this "Inquirer" around. Same red style as the Register, same news niche, same humor - and the Register became all of a sudden very pale. I thought: What the f*** is going on? 
Years later I found out - the station has left the train. :)

Thanks Mike! You set a mile stone for good investigative IT journalism.

Both thumbs up for ... er ... whatever you do next!

I checked a few of my sources and the story is Mike is accepting a position as a VP at Intel to handle the press corp...

Seems Intel has become tired of the flack its current staff generates so they asked Mike to come over and steer the corp away from the bad press.

Of course it is widely known that even banks dont have as many VP's as Intel does so its not much of a step upwards.

Im sorry thats the truth - I wish it wasnt so. Also part of the deal is all of those contributors over the years will have their email addresses turned over to Intel.

Does this mean the site will become more or less farcical? Was the Mageek the foot on the pedal of irreverant tech journalism or was he the wise old codger helming a ship of clueless vagrants through the currents of PR lunacy?

Only time will tell.

Mike,

Sorry to hear you are going, the place won't be the same without you. But god luck in whatever you do next.

Wayne

Good luck, Godspeed and sojourn.

Another "lifer" here, wishing Our Magurk good health and good fortune.

Mr. Magee, I can't say I knew of you until now, but, I do know of your Inquirer and TheRegister websites which I hit regularly.

Thank you

Mike is becoming the new CEO of AMD XD

Mike,

I followed you when you left the old rag, and I look forward to your new endeavor, whatever it may be. Good luck, this place will not be the same without you.

No, get back, now!!!
Or get yourself replaced by Everywhere Girl.

We'll all miss you, Mike. Stay around!

mycelo

Has it really been 7 years already? Seems like only 6 years since I read about Mike leaving that other place and I followed him to the Inquirer.

Thanks for the great entertainment site, Mike;) Lets hope the geniuses left in charge don't suddenly decide the site needs a makeover and turn it generic blue and more "user-friendly".

When news squaked Thunderbird, Mike was right in with Duron 800 as price/point. When in Royal Navy Board Room, Mike Was Right In. However, Ulti_Tom has Now Removed Msr. Magee from MYMY Heart Donor List.( I wanted to go Octo).

Whether its Hollywood with Everywhere or Lord Fairfaxs Chamber, its Ultie, opps, I mean MIKE was right in.Boston? right in. .

Remember ElectroLux is at times useful as spare heart. HaHaTear,weep oh,my. Try MASSIVE bunch of B Balanced Complex so we might get through year '8 & ULTIMATE, Please.
No Child Comes To Earth Except Thru PAIN, Its Not as BAD as Its Been.
thomas s von drashek

All the best to the Mageek. The inq made my days worthwhile during the last maybe 5 years. It was usually the first look in the morning at work. Good luck and all the best.

Bye Mike,

I'll miss your work, alot. You helped build what I consider to be the finest tech news site on the Internet... 

No NDAs for dogs sake !!!

Thanks for all the articles,

Chris

(...but can you be sure it's not the beer and cigarettes that caused the heart condition ???)

Be sure to let us know where you tip up.

Best wishes.


For me, the highlight was Mike and Charlie overclocking the lifts in Algiers. Mike, your life and light have been a tonic for this quarantined little world.

I particularly liked the way over the years that if you submit corrections to the misinformation posted in Inquirer articles, it would be stolen and treated as their own!

I love that especially when at the time the Inquirer made a big song and dance about other news based websites stealing their articles. Way to report!

Well, screw that, I already followed Mike Magee from the The Reg, which I had been reading for years, and then had to read The Inq on top of things. So now I have to read three sites, maybe? Stop changing my world, dammit.

that's terrible news, but at the same time am happy for the mageek. all those years of wonderful articles about curly and carly, the itanic, chimp and chipzilla, will be missed. there's a certain humor that mike has added, kind of lost it during the last two years, perhaps it's has to do with the mageek's health, but thanks for the good times!

...the RandomQuoter at the top of the page? It just wouldn't be the same seeing "Paul Hales'" above The Inq's masthead - having a comma after the "s" in his name is something up with which I will not put!

Man..! it's bad that you're leaving... what are you going to do and are you going to cave more?

anyways, the best to you Mr. Mageek!

How times change!

If I remember rightly he used to sleep at his desk (when he was in), occasionally shuffle bits of paper around to look busy, and then quickly bash out the month's news in about five minutes. 

Quite impressive as in those days press releases were on paper so you couldn't just copy and paste.

And when I challenged his journalistic ability by unfavourably comparing him to Guy Kewney, he wanted a fist fight to settle the matter.

Good luck Mike, and congrats to Paul. I know that now you are a boss-man you will at least maintain a high standard of personal hygiene, unlike, er, someone you used to know.

Thanks for bringing us the best source of tech news out there. I've been reading the Inq for years, and nobody does it better than you guys!

you will be shorely missed.

If true this is a sad day Mike is the best of the best at what He does.

It is like America when Michael Jordan retired from Pro Basketball
(NBA)I hope this isn't true but If so Mike was a visionary that was the most knowledgeable Computer Writer this Planet has ever seen.

This is like Black Sunday or the Holocaust.

You will be missed Mike and irreplaceable.

Freddy USA

Thank you for the INQ and The Reg. Excellent sites!

I love the original INQ, the critical eye to a business becoming more and more cynical with every minute. I understand why you quit, it's hard to swim against the current. Credo to you, I wish you all the best. Miss you already.

Hey Mike, your articles have provided me with a lot of humor over the years. What ever you do in the future keep that sense of humor and good luck to you!

PS: To the bloke who wrote "screw him"
Crawl back under your rock!

Thanks for your fine work blending geek and cheek,

You knew this was going to happen as soon as the sale of the Inquirer was announced.
It remains to be seen if the end result to my homepage will be Hale and hearty or Laurel and Hardy. Anywho, I doubt that oblivion will suit our MaGeek for long despite the fondest wishes of industry spinsters.

I'm as much a drunken fool now as I was the time I left a drunken message on Mike's answerphone offering my services in going down the Glasgow Buchanan Street Apple Store opening for a healthy bout of IRL trolling, although I'd like to offer a good deal more goodwill in this message than the last. 

Mike, you're great, your site's great, and although Fudo and Captn Farrel are rubbish, you've created somethign really rather excellent. 

I will continue to write about you on the wikipedia and visit whatever sites you cobble together out of dyslexic foreign spacktards as well as people that can actually write. Thanks for all the ace journalism - Dave

Good luck Mike ... the place is likely to be a bit boring without you.

Hopefully all of the rest of the staff can keep up with the weirding ways ...

Moving right along ... how come I didn't get offered the Ed's job ??

Bloody Limey's. 

Hmmmm... < sob > ...

Good bye Gentleman. Best wishes of success...
Chipzilla & co can release their joy now you're gone, unless...
Show must go on, we will miss you

Good luck to you sir. May your next rag be even more successful and inflammatory

Good luck Mike! Good luck to us too, we've got Paul Hales to contend with now. Oy vey! Here comes even more anti-American bashing, oh joy.

So Mr Magoo is leaving- I thought he was a short-sighted cartoon character....

Well... I'm sad. But I wish you all the best.

Arrrgh.... say it ain't so, Mikey, me boy.... We hardly ken ye.....

Besides which, you're no older than me, and I'm far from retiring....

Hi Mike, Greetings from Singapore. Best of luck! Ed

I'll be really, really sorry to see you go, Mike! Both The Inquirer and The Register have added a sorely-needed element to the Web: intelligent, witty, somewhat cynical news and comment. I've always thought of them - especially The Inquirer - as the Private Eyes of the Web. 

Good luck with whatever madcap scheme takes your fancy next, and I'll sip a wee dram to your health from time to time. (Hmmm, maybe this news does have an upside...)

Sold his brainchild to a huuuuge company, so this was to be expected (been there, done it, still suffer from the "how good of a move, besides those bags of money, was that anyway" trauma). Nonetheless: always enjoy the site, including the in-the-weekend updates and flash-dash responses to e-mail. All the best to Mike. Hope that huuuuge company keeps up the good work.

Mike, you're one of those rare people who make this life happier, juicier! Was opening every day all these years your INQ, it is always fun to read it, and abruptly, booom, Mike Magee is leaving... Pity, almost nothing I can offer you in return, I even so rearly clicked on your ad links :)))). 

But take my sincere feeling of respect to your great talent and style. I'm sure you're still heading up and will reappear somewhere around, it's impossible to accept anything else.

Reading that Mike had a bypass was a shock. Not so much that he's leaving. It could have been presumed he would only stay on for a decent interval after selling the rag. Best hopes for a full and speedy recovery Mike. And if you start another publication, it should be something along the totally iconoclastic vein that The Inquirer was in its infancy.

" This is like when Elvis left the Beatles" ...LOL... yeah, Mike must be leaving the Inq because he's marrying Yoko and then moving to Iceland.

Mike, I hate to see you leave, but I wish you all the best.

...you balling somebody out by the end of the night. Make sure they've got Talisker wherever you're off to. G.

Mike, you've injected a lot of fun, humor, and wit into an industry that can be boring and maddening. Thanks, and good luck with your next gig.

Whereever, whenever Mike finds himself, I wish him hope, smoke, and a beer.
carey of canada

Its good to see you will finally be one of the out of the closet rank and file at AMD. Maybe you can straighten them out, I would refuse the stock option though and demand cash, Good luck you will need it.

Mike, may I be the first to congratulate you. 

I heard the interview with John Delaney went well (I know, I know, he wasn't there) and you got a bit edgy when you saw Kevin Keegan in the lobby (he's since got fixed up with a Championship club.)

All this "He’s believed to be involved in a future project based in foreign climes" makes it sound like you're off to Antigua. 

I'm sure Mick and Jack have been on the blower. Just make sure you hit 'busy' if you get a bell from Stan.