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Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

statusuri — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:14:11 -0000

they are the god of IT ...

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

bogdanel — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:21:15 -0000

without them the IT industry was not so high ! so they are the best

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jocuri barbie — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:51:17 -0000

I really love Microsoft because without them the IT industry was not so high!

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

tv online — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:09:11 -0000

Maybe Microsoft would be more loved if they quit committing felonies.

Just a thought.

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Manele gratis — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:09:16 -0000

I think Bungie is a bad example, Bungie was a independent company before, when Microsoft bought them up they agreed to basically leave them alone, so you cannot point at them as a success story for Microsoft other than as a good acquisition.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Manele — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:50:15 -0000

I really love Microsoft because without them the IT industry was not so high! i really can't imagine a world without microsoft products.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Al Billings — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 10:29:05 -0000

Speaking of scrapping IE for Firefox, ex-MSFT Dave Massy and I have both been taking the IE team to task on our blogs for stopping any real outward facing discussions concerning the future of IE. After IE7 shipped, the IEBlog went into cruise mode and they killed Borgzilla (the Connect site) by taking it offline "temporarily" (more than a year ago).

This seems to be exactly the kind of thing Microsoft seemed so keen on not doing a couple of years ago yet here it is doing it again...

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Some Guy — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:28:23 -0000

Maybe Microsoft would be more loved if they quit committing felonies.

Just a thought.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Ben Janse van Jorksveld — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:08:13 -0000

Look at Techmeme now :-) Top story!!

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Nerv — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:04:48 -0000

Personally, I believe people just need to move on. When is the last time someone called IBM innovative? Or hold them comparable to Apple, Nintendo, or Google? Sure, Microsoft is causing their own problems by trying to compete with all three of those "innovators". Microsoft just needs to understand they are like GM and IBM now. They are a huge (and I mean HUGE!) company that isn't the up and coming love child of IT anymore. People need to understand that time is long behind Microsoft.
They are still a major force in the IT industry. If you don't think so.. still look at IE being the #1 browser, XP being the #1 OS, XBox Live (how did I ever play games before this), XNA for independent game developers, C#, and a handful of other cool new products.
They are the cornerstone (or even the foundation) of the IT world. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
But, as Scoble characterized, if they don't change spending their inheritance... (How much $$$ did they lose in the failing Xbox game systems?), they will, by their own hand, work their way out of relevance.
And personally, I think that would be a shame. To see a company come in and scare/shock Sony in the videogame market, force Apple and Nintendo to go in crazy new directions (which definitely helped both companies), it a great thing.
I stopped being a MS hater a long time ago. Now, I just keep getting annoyed at the people that can't get past the pre-bubble bust MS days. It is over. Move on.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Scott — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:30:51 -0000

Bob wrote: "Hmmm, is that why last week Forbes labled AppleTV as the “iFlop”?"

And Microsoft makes the XBox, which is quite popular. But, for the most part, these are exceptions, not the rule.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

EricaT — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:16:24 -0000

You are right...if Microsoft told a better story then people would trust them more. It's kind of like having a friend that tells you a story about something crazy that happened over the weekend, but forgets and tells you twice with two different endings. One might be true, but you don't know which one, so you distrust both endings.

There ARE people working on this...

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Bob — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:24:18 -0000

A large (and money making) part of Microsoft's target is not YOU Scoble. You're only interested in gadgets and web services, so you miss anything that falls outside of that.

Let me ask you a question: When is the last time that IBM released a product or service that excited the general populace? Never? Yet they make plenty of money. And their products and services are NEVER covered on your blog, because they don't make (or excel) in the stuff you're interested in.

Your last sentence of your post was "Am I missing something?" The answer is a big fat YES.

BTW, you need to get the hell out of "The Valley" if you want a broader perspective on things.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Bob — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:38:38 -0000

"Apple excels at makes things you want to use. "

Hmmm, is that why last week Forbes labled AppleTV as the "iFlop"?
http://www.forbes.com/free_...

As for making things you want to use vs things you need to use, I's guess the latter results in long term steady income and the former results in short bursts of high income. Both are good to be about.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Diego — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:21:32 -0000

"It’s been more than a year now since I left Microsoft. I really expected Ray Ozzie to come out and do lots of cool stuff for the Internet. But what did we get?"

We got some web version of the clipboard. Where is that thing now anyways? And that's about it. Now, back to google.com.....

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Scott — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:28:38 -0000

Microsoft excels at making things you need to use.

Apple excels at makes things you want to use.

It's really that simple.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

BrianK — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:30:06 -0000

I don't think Microsoft deserves its stock price. Guess people want the flashy stuff, but I guess making money isn't flashy enough.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Tomi Itkonen — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:18:22 -0000

Au contraire...

I'd say that Google is the rich, smart kid (age 9) who has inherited money (IPO).

Microsoft is a single thirtysomething man who's worked and played hard all his life, achieved success and a few scars on his face. And now, he realizes it's the perfect time to find a partner with whom to produce offspring and give birth to something totally different!

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Simon — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:43:45 -0000

@26 well, cool apparently doesn't pay. Let us know when ANY of these web 2.0 start turning a sustainable profit and can resist being acquired. Again,while these sv companies are cool,the majority lack a sustainable business model

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Edddy — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:14:25 -0000

I think that you are missing that MS has a more global think, and they don't ship thinking "en-US". Also, they can't afford breaking any flavor of Windows or Office, so their testing isn't fun.

Even Google don't have all their apps localized in foreign languages.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Robert Scoble — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:02:35 -0000

Chris: hey, I still use Hotmail. :-)

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Chris Peden — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:59:52 -0000

My take on Microsoft: They don't innovate, all they seem to know how to do is buy their way in front on eyeballs. They buy company after company because apparently they are not creative enough to think up anything themselves. Secondly they appear to have very little culture. They are like the uncool kid in class that nobody wants to hangout with. How many people would admit they use hotmail or Microsoft OneCare? Seriously really...not any in the know geek. Apple, Google and many of the web 2.0 stuff has a culture that makes people want to be apart of....Microsoft is the boring ugly duckling that is all about enterprise and all that corporate stuff. I don't think microsoft can ever be the cool kid everyone wants to hang out with. The closest thing will be Silverlight, but I can guarantee that Adobe isn't going down without a fight.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Ian White — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:35:41 -0000

Having been a Lotus accolyte for many years, watching Ray has been a bit of a preoccupation. His style has been no news until he is absoloutely ready to shout (in a Ray'ish sort of way) about it. This may be good for Ray but deadly for MS. I hope not, I am still a fan.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

folkrockgirl — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:07:35 -0000

I disagree with Spot on in comment #3; "a whole nother" is a genius phrase that I use often ;)

I think the problems with Microsoft are what plague most behemoth companies. For one, it is much harder to move an elephant than a bird, and often riskier. This is why SBUs like Bungie are usually a good bet.

Second, humans naturally distrust people (or companies or governments) when they reach a level of power/wealth that threaten their own sense of fairness. Your rich child analogy is a good one.

Re: Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love?

Sriram Krishnan — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:26:51 -0000

Robert - you do realize that this post says the exact opposite about Halo3 (and transitively, everything about XBox 360) when compared to your post on May 13th about the Wii.

http://scobleizer.com/2007/...
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