[dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Mon Jun 3 11:34:20 CDT 2013


Hi John:

Along with your new tag, you have brought up a very interesting subject. It
may be a little out of step for this list but it is definitely tech related.

Large tech firms all become arrogant and as they grow they forget who put
them on the top. Many such companies have come and gone...Borland, VAX,
Lotus, Novell, SCO and so on...they were momentarily huge but are now mostly
gone and forgotten.

For decades Microsoft was run by a tough and shrewd business man, along with
his sidekick (Sancho Panza(?)). Now his old sidekick is trying to run
things. The new man is not an equal, not a visionary and viewed more as a
court-jester. Ballmer's running of the company has caused it to stagger from
one disaster to another. The only thing that has kept the company from
collapsing has been the huge cash cows like Office and a stable of some of
the finest developers and managers in the business. The truth is that MS
could go on for a long long time with this type of leadership but it will
never regain its once held position in the market and will just slowly
erode.

Ballmer's latest disaster is Windows RT. 
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/03/microsoft-stop-trying-to-make-windows-rt-ha
ppen/

Microsoft could have easily solved the new low powered chip issues like
Linux did by simply making the OS handle it.

Jim
 
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Name a company that doesn't do this. Has Google ever released anything not
in "Beta"?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:20 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1

<rant mode on>
Microsoft has violated one of the major laws of development:

"Treat your users as co-developers."


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