Posted on 01/31/2014 7:04:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Microsoft is an insanely profitable company standing on the edge of disaster. It desperately needs new thinking. With word that 22-year Microsoft veteran Satya Nadella is likely the new CEO, attention turns to the leadership of the company's board of directors. It will have two former CEOs, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.
So new thinking is unlikely to come from them.
In fact, Gates has a track record of huge strategic errors that have cost the company years of progress in market share. Here's why he should be the one to go:
1. Gates' world was: Go slow. Microsoft needs to change its corporate culture. Today’s tech companies try to move fast and fail. They can fail because they move fast, which means that they can fix a mistake as fast as they create one. Microsoft has a historical culture of moving slow and not failing. That comes from a time when people installed software once very three years. Times have changed. Now companies deliver software via the cloud and can add or roll back new features every day.
2. He almost missed the Internet. The Internet rose during Gates time as CEO, and he actually wasn't an Internet visionary. He entered the browser market long after Netscape, for example. His efforts to catch up and crush Netscape led Microsoft into an epic antitrust judgement and 10 years of oversight by the Department of Justice. Ultimately Microsoft’s Internet products (browsers, web servers to development tools) did well and grabbed lots of market share. But Microsoft and Gates didn’t lead here, they followed, and almost disastrously so.
3. Speaking of the Internet, there’s Bing. Bing is a fine service, but Microsoft will never beat Google by being a me-too search site. New leadership needs to figure that out.
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“OS/2 was superior to Windows in every way. “
Not even close. It was a disaster of an OS. Who in their right mind released a single threaded kernel??
OS/2 always was multi-threaded. It always was truly object-oriented.
Windows is still DOS.
That's a sad statement. You make it seem like work is a bad thing. For many people out there, work is their passion and allows them to live a happy productive life. If you think work is a drudgery, you are in the wrong line of work.
“OS/2 always was multi-threaded.”
Do you know the difference between a multithreaded process and a multithreaded OS? Didn’t think so.
I like my job plenty, but it’s just that—A JOB. If you’re putting more into that than your family, you’ve got problems.
Well work is a very important part of life. You want to leave this life after having contributed something to society. Not only is it how you support your family but it is your legacy as well.
Retirement is vastly overrated. So long as you have something to contribute, you should do so.
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