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Microsoft: Still unclear on the concept

Started by mathewi · 11 months ago

I was going to call this post “Decoding the Microsoft memo,” but my friend Kara Swisher has that kind of trademarked already, and I don’t want to owe her any more money than I already do. But reading through the missive from CEO Steve Ballmer that she has post ... Continue reading »

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  • Ed Lee

    11 months ago

    i believe steve ballmer's dad was an executive in the automotive industry - isn't originally from detroit?
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  • Sandy

    11 months ago

    Driving is also something you do to cattle.
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  • Tri

    11 months ago

    There is no upstate Seattle. You're thinking of New York City, which works with the phrase "upstate New York." Hrm, maybe Steve Ballmer lives in upstate Seattle.
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  • Whit

    11 months ago

    love it!

    "The people say they don’t want more potatoes? Then we must “drive change in potato-consumption models through taxation and random beatings.”"

    Why not just create cutting edge products consumers WANT?
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  • JoeDuck

    11 months ago

    Yoda says Ballmer Drive Matt Crazy He Does.

    I'm not as skeptical of the MS zeitgeist. The game is pretty well defined now. MS controls software, Google controls online. Software's still the big ticket item but online is catching up fast. Both companies are trying to position themselves to be the key player in the online space. Google is winning, but MS has a *lot* of money to burn and more time than most people assume before the revenue winds shift against them. Google won't see MS size revenues for at least 3-5 years - a virtual eternity online.
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  • Maggy Young

    11 months ago

    Yeah & all true, but seems from the post that MS has succumbed to steady state bureaucratic problems, preventing real innovation & growth and which Google appears not to have done ... quite yet. So the 'revenue wind' will probably catch up with MS quicker than it might have otherwise. Barring buzz words, MS and Steve seem to have gone stale on the job & the real desire for innovation has gone. Instead of empty jargon, they should say what innovations they are planning.
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