To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (51962 ) 3/28/2006 10:22:25 PM From: Lizzie Tudor Respond to from the mini msft blog (comments section)don't know if this is a disaster in the long view -- it's not like all those companies are going to switch to Linux in those few weeks or something -- but from a PR POV, this is going to be as bad as it can get short of canceling Vista altogether. I took part in a computer trade show early this month in Germany, and Microsoft was showing Vista, and the Microsoft fans were saying it looks like OS X (Apple wasn't there). Apple is on a roll, and we've just given them enough time to get the next version of OS X out the door (whatever animal name it is going to be). And we can guess right now what their marketing push will be: Stop waiting for those guys who can't even copy our old stuff in time. Get the original from us -- we ship on time, we're shipping right now. It’s not that easy to judge things from Europe, but it seems to me that something has went totally wrong in Redmond over past 5-6 years. MS is a big company and its getting ever bigger. Computer and software industry have to be quick and adaptable otherwise the inner bureaucratic mechanism will destroy the machine from inside. The managers are sitting in their ebony towers and deny the fact that there is a problem. That SteveB interview was nonsense, there were a lot of words, but no content (as usual with him I think). There is no innovation. Period. There is a process drived desperate attempts to ship something. The focus lies on process itself, because management (from low- to upper level) does not produce anything, simply put: the cannot code. There’s no focus on customers, that’s plain and simple, And they are holding onto their seats, we all have mortgages etc, so that’s understandable. Interesting, MS has almost the same top management as in 2000. Am I wrong? That self defending bunch of incompetent guys must go. Especially that SteveB boy. Its funny, all this reminds me Apple before Steve Jobs rejoined the company. And the Apple’s Copland story. Vista is somewhat similar to Copland. There is hardly anything new under the Sun …
