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 -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jbartow at winhaven.net Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2013 2:42 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Start button coming back to Windows 8.1 Name a company that doesn't do this. Has Google ever released anything not in "Beta"? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [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." _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com