Zoiets in het openbaar is rampzalig voor Microsoft, maar ik vind het zo grappig! Het laat zien dat er zoveel meer schuilgaat achter de schermen bij zo'n groot bedrijf! Fantastisch!

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Vernietigende mail Microsoft-topman openbaar gemaakt
"Microsoft is zijn richting kwijt." "Vandaag de dag zou ik een Mac kopen." Twee niet al te vleiende citaten over Microsoft, en toch komen ze uit het bedrijf zelf. Auteur is Jim Allchin, topman bij de computergigant. Allchinn schreef de mail al in 2004, en dat hij niet al te lovend was, was al bekend. Nu is zijn mail aan onder meer topman Bill Gates ook openbaar gemaakt.
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De mail

Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:38 AM
To: Bill Gates; Steve Balimer
Subject: losing our way...

This is a rant. I’m sorry.

I am not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers (both business and home) the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems are customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that doesn’t translate into great products.

I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft. If you run the equivalent of VPC on a MAC you get access to basically all Windows application software (although not the hardware) . Apple did not lose their way. You must watch this new video helow. I know this doesn’t show anything for businesses, but my point is about the philosophy that Apple uses. They think scenario. They think simple. They think fast. I know there is nothing hugely deep in this.

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I must tell you everything in my soul tells me that we should do what I called plan (b) yesterday. We need a simple fast storage system. LH (Longhorn, verwijst naar de eerdere naam van het uit te komen Windows Vista, nvdr) is a pig and I don’t see any solution to this problem. If we are to rise to the challenqe of Linux and Apple, we need to start taking the lessons of “scenario, simple, fast” to heart.

Jim

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