Scobleizer: Microsoft doesn't get credit...
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Yesterday, Robert Scoble had a blog entry titled Steve Jobs Positions Microsoft In Business Week. In the posting, he laments:
Steve Jobs of Apple says, in BusinessWeek, Microsoft sucks. Oh, OK, he didn't really say that, but he implied it.
The funny thing is that he's right. We do suck. We suck at not getting credit for the really cool things that Microsoft has been kicking out left and right.
Being the typical pro-IBM/anti-Microsoft person, I at first thought this was just typical MS propoganda. But I couldn't shake this thought. He's actually right, I think. Microsoft *does* come out with some cool stuff. Visual Studio is generally acknowledged to be a killer IDE. And I'm sure there's other things out there (we'll leave Exchange out to make it fair). But why does MS get bashed in the press and by techno-geeks?
I'll venture forth a guess.... All the cool stuff you deliver isn't worth anything if you can't deliver on the basics... Security... Reliability... Scalability... Announced feature sets...
That's also true for life in general... Your best efforts and results aren't worth anything if people can't trust you with the basics...
Yesterday, Robert Scoble had a blog entry titled Steve Jobs Positions Microsoft In Business Week. In the posting, he laments:
Steve Jobs of Apple says, in BusinessWeek, Microsoft sucks. Oh, OK, he didn't really say that, but he implied it.
The funny thing is that he's right. We do suck. We suck at not getting credit for the really cool things that Microsoft has been kicking out left and right.
Being the typical pro-IBM/anti-Microsoft person, I at first thought this was just typical MS propoganda. But I couldn't shake this thought. He's actually right, I think. Microsoft *does* come out with some cool stuff. Visual Studio is generally acknowledged to be a killer IDE. And I'm sure there's other things out there (we'll leave Exchange out to make it fair). But why does MS get bashed in the press and by techno-geeks?
I'll venture forth a guess.... All the cool stuff you deliver isn't worth anything if you can't deliver on the basics... Security... Reliability... Scalability... Announced feature sets...
That's also true for life in general... Your best efforts and results aren't worth anything if people can't trust you with the basics...
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