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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alydar who wrote (66710)	4/4/2002 12:59:40 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Yes - thank you. 10 years ago, I thought that Microsoft should hire Anders Hejlsberg and make him CTO and make him decide about all the products to be developed. But he didn't want to be hired by MSFT. When he eventually got hired, they put him on J++ (as far as I remember). It was too late that they actually gave this man power over key technologies, he could have made the difference. I think you are right - if they had set a higher priority on improving software quality and getting ready for the enterprise, Windows and Office might be a minor part of their earnings today. What they did instead, was to prioritize mass marketing and make Microsoft one of the best software marketing companies in the world, if not the best. Having done that, there was no choice but to go with mass marketing intensive products like X-box etc. But it is always easy to say things like this afterwards. Dybdahl.