"Bill G on biggest Microsoft management blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust cases?"
My, my, ol' Billy Gates is looking a little rough around the edges these days...
"Bill G on biggest Microsoft management blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust cases?"
My, my, ol' Billy Gates is looking a little rough around the edges these days...
Microsoft Bob? Clippy?
Clippy....................
That's the first time I have ever heard a sweater called a jumper. I though at first perhaps he was transitioning, as jumpers usually refer to something like this:
or these:
You have to peel the onion a layer deeper...M$ had a real chance to dominate the handheld computing market with CE but they blew it. The first ass-kicking came at the hands of Palm OS. After wasting both personal money and professional reputation betting that Microsoft was the horse to ride, I finally gave up on them before they rebranded and transformed it in to "Mobile". Microsoft's reputation in the early mobile device market was that of a loser with 3rd rate products and poor support. They had zero reputation in embedded (and still don't). They were all about the desktop, Office, and server, and they really had no chance at mobile.
um...OK.
I can guarantee the words "sporting a natty pink jumper" will never be used after my name.
Microsoft has almost always failed in situations like that. Their development strategies revolve around each product concept generating it’s own profit, almost like autonomous businesses.
When apple decided to get into the phone market, they took what they already did well with the iPod and put into their phone, including the ability to play music like iPods did. If it were Microsoft, they’d have locked the music and iTunes out of their phone unless you paid more for it, because that profit belonged to the iPod division. Apple’s philosophy is to make you a customer first, and let the that drive the additional revenue streams after.
Microsoft was never going to have a great device OS because Microsoft was never ready to combine or bundle it with their market strengths, such is into the business real using office for example. Office is too precious. So fail.
Their biggest blunder was failing to listen to customers.
They still don’t listen.
USB-C is a mess on Windows 10.
Audio breakup has been a problem since Windows 7.
Modern Security hooks have are only now somewhat arriving.
Apple would be kicking their butt if Corporate didn’t have so much invested in MS.
When I was at Intel, we would come up with a great idea, MS would say...”Yea but we need control over it”
I really liked windows phone. And Nokia was building some great hardware. I was all in.
Then Microsoft completely screwed the pooch.
Had they just delivered new, competitive hardware in a yearly fashion while addressing software issues they would possibly be #2. And still in the race. But they went too long without even throwing a bone to the diehards. And the diehards evaporated
It was Steve Ballmer...
The Windows phone was a great product. It was a nearly perfect phone.
I’ve always despised Microsoft, Ballmer and Gates and their media sychophants. Windows is, and has always been a piece of sh1t.
I developed all my products for OS/2, a far superior and truly O-O operating system. To prove this, just perform a file move from one folder to another.
OS/2 still exists, was eComStation, now is ArcaNoae. Still far superior to Windows, Linux, and any other OS on the market.
I paid a high financial price for sticking to my firm beliefs. But even today, I would make the same decision. I will never give my customers crap. And Windows is crap!
I nominate that Word is still not as good as WordPerfect was 20 years ago.
Microsoft’s biggest managerial mistake was going to their current update system. Their second was letting the QA deteriorate in their current update system. The third may be changing their licensing model, we’ll have to see about that one. All IMHO, of course.
BG’s biggest mistake was not allowing Microsoft to get into hardware early on. They dabbled and made a few brilliant moves with hardware, then quit.
It was massive replacement of American software engineers with cheating, copying and lying Indian H1B technicians to include the current Microsoft CEO