MSFT's Mindset = Energy-Taking Blackhole...
>>Don't blame the government. MSFT has created this through their horrible management and vision over the last 4-5 years. George Gilder predicted this decline and MSFT's progressive technological irrelevance 5 years ago. The business practices they utilized in attempting to extract themselves from this advancing irrelevance and their reactionary mode landed them in jail. This company has little vision and even less innovation. It is a "monopolistic leach" on the Yankee ingenuity engine which created the PC revolution. MSFT's motto "Freedom to Innovate" should be replaced with "Freedom to Leach and Consume Other's Innovation". The InterNet has been a large contributor to the continuing technological irrelevance of MSFT as the previous hugely successfull MSFT "spin engine" (which worked well for the ill-informed consumers pre-InterNet) is exposed more and more by the communications and "leveling" of the knowledge playing field of this fantastic media.>>
Folks.
Microsoft's MINDSET is doing this to them.
PERIOD. END.
Like Toto pulling the curtain away in the Wizard of Oz Gates' and Balmer's mindset is just being unmasked.
At least the Wizard was a much more forgiving, charitable fellow. Gates and Balmer have decided to deny, deny, deny, spin, spin, spin and call this a holy war.
I'm sorry folks. The politics and power of spin can work the general media in favor of Microsoft - this has been their saving grace - but in the end it boils down to the need for the REAL truth to be delivered to the general public. Don't count on the media to deliver this message. Someone has to make it into a case where evidence, facts, records, testimony, stories and everything else are laid out for a judge to consider and review.
The arrogance of these two to think they can rise above this process is incredible.
Yes, Gates' vision and business acumen was responsible for Microsoft being a technology patheon. But whenever ONE company becomes a place where 95% of our technology-based personal power, control, belief, faith and trust is stored, that company better the ethics, honestry, morality and actions to earn 95% vote of that trust.
Don't try to paint the DOJ into this corner.
Microsoft did this to themselves.
This distrusting, paranoid, fearful, power, control pyramid is simply collapsing: politically, financially, morally, ethically.
Look around you. These same kind of transformations will be happening all over the world with massive, unbundling frequency.
The technology of the future will "serve us" - not the other way around. For the net is simply a transparent source of light, energy and truth. Like a lasar, the net - the light - is killing off the politics, power, control, and wealth of this Old Age of Business.
We are transforming into a New Age of Service. This New Age will be driven by the power of THE INDIVIDUAL - not companies, governments, associations or anything that places the INDIVIDUAL in a lessor role.
Many people would like to think that Gates and Balmer are the icons behind the rise in the power of the INDIVIDUAL. The problem with this argument is that heros behind this this next transformation will be those that put themselves "in service of others". For me to be part of this I have to put myself totally at the mercy of those I'm trying to help and serve.
Now take a deep breath. Throw away Wired, Fast Company, Red Herring and all the other BS.
How is the net going to power this transformation?
The TWO areas where I see massive growth is in the many ways that INDIVIDUALS - not companies, or DOT.COMs - will use their voice to control/tame the net and store their personal data. Behind Voice I recommend adding a good dollup of all kinds of positive, creative, empowering music. Voice and music are two forces that come from the creative power and energy residing within the INDIVIDUAL: this will become THE consolidating power that builds the trust and creates and supports the sense of "community" which was missing from the NOT.COM Wizard of Oz phase.
Forget it Bill and Steve. In spite of all your shennigans, you had your opportunity to create goodwill, peace, community and spirit with maps with the Internet Spirit. You decided to completely, totally ignore this spirit. Your arrogance and the entire record is there for everyone to "see" and "get". Open up? Acknowledge? Accept? Forgive?
Fat chance!
The Internet is NOT a black hole. It's an open, energy- giving light force which attacts, exposes, makes a fool of while erradicating anything that restricts, closes, limits, controls, takes, withholds....ENERGY, LIGHT, TRUTH, etc.
It's a fission reaction - the power of the sun - LOVE - burning through the darkness and turning us all 180% from the Old while illuminating us to a New reality of Service.
Throw out the word "business." Bury it. It's over guys. Time is up. We're on a new playing field: SERVICE. HP got it right - "service."
Let go and get used to it.....
Peace.
GO!! |
