Ouch, I'm a smartmouth now. I've been called worse, of course. The idiots in the press division don't know much, so I guess it's faint praise to say I know as much as they do. None of us can hold a candle to the omniscient vision of the Mind of Reg(tm) of course. Anyway, on the role of the press, you know, those guys who just want to sell advertising? We got this little quote here, from a high up member of the brilliant management team at the greatest company in the history of the known universe.
The second thing we do is tell them, in regard to what's important, we tell them, "Just win the product reviews in the technical trade press." That's what's so important to our users. Get out there and understand what users want, and work at it, work at it, work at it -- in terms of eventually getting to the point where we have the best product. Sometimes that takes us a long time.
That's COO Bob Herbold, from techweb.com . I can't quite get a handle on this, exactly. Microsoft is just delivering what the market demands, but what the market demands is what wins in the trade press. But the trade press just wants to get advertising. Microsoft wouldn't be much of an advertiser would they? I don't know where, exactly, the poor smucks, I mean consumers, buying Win95 at retail fit into this equation, they didn't get mentioned here. I'm sure Microsoft is just giving them what they demand, though.
Oh, and anytime you want to explain the employee buyout plan at Microsoft feel free. Hypothetically, of course, since those $30 billion or so in outstanding options don't actually exist, or something like that. I know a little about quantum mechanics, but options theory is beyond me.
Cheers, Dan. |
