Comments on: When will they let Ballmer go? http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/ escape colon w q Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Microsoft’s WinPhone7 parade exposes a fundamental problem : #comments http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-15790 Microsoft’s WinPhone7 parade exposes a fundamental problem : #comments Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:15:57 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-15790 [...] With this celebration it shows that Microsoft focuses not on simply creating a great product – if that were so the celebration would have been completely about the team and their awesome new operating system. Instead they are focused on doing whatever they can to somehow kill their competition. And that’s a real problem – Microsoft you have great talent and great resources, concentrate on creating great products for their own sake. Let your successes be creative (as the iPod, iPhone and iPad were – breathing life into stagnant if not moribund industries) instead of destructive (the goal of your product is to beat other currently successful products). This comes down to leadership – look at Jobs and compare him to the sweating, ranting, raving and chair throwing you see every time there’s a new video of Ballmer – he’s got to go… [...] [...] With this celebration it shows that Microsoft focuses not on simply creating a great product – if that were so the celebration would have been completely about the team and their awesome new operating system. Instead they are focused on doing whatever they can to somehow kill their competition. And that’s a real problem – Microsoft you have great talent and great resources, concentrate on creating great products for their own sake. Let your successes be creative (as the iPod, iPhone and iPad were – breathing life into stagnant if not moribund industries) instead of destructive (the goal of your product is to beat other currently successful products). This comes down to leadership – look at Jobs and compare him to the sweating, ranting, raving and chair throwing you see every time there’s a new video of Ballmer – he’s got to go… [...]

]]> By: The end of Microsoft & Yahoo? http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-10584 The end of Microsoft & Yahoo? Mon, 05 May 2008 14:39:18 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-10584 [...] now comes all the craziness. First TechCrunch pondered if Steve Ballmer should be fired for this. Well, yeah, duh. But not because of this. On the flip side of the fence, Matthew Ingram asks the same of Jerry [...] [...] now comes all the craziness. First TechCrunch pondered if Steve Ballmer should be fired for this. Well, yeah, duh. But not because of this. On the flip side of the fence, Matthew Ingram asks the same of Jerry [...]

]]> By: Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6332 Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer, Ballmer Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:25:46 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-6332 [...] I just think they’ll muck it up. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Ballmer isn’t the guy to be steering that ship no mo’.  ↑  Breakfast Links: Truffle, Topless Men [...] [...] I just think they’ll muck it up. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Ballmer isn’t the guy to be steering that ship no mo’.  ↑  Breakfast Links: Truffle, Topless Men [...]

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6126 felix Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:27:25 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-6126 Are they crazy! The problem isn't necessarily the notion that social networks are a fad, who knows. It's the reasoning behind that - it's a fad because the kids like it? There are many, many social networks that are not targeted at kids. The geocities comparison is patently the most ridiculous comparison I've heard in a long time. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. They were both on the web. That's sort of where the similarities end. Much of what Ballmer says is intrinsically wrong. Or if the conclusions are not necessarily wrong, he's assessment of how he got to that conclusion is flawed and bound to result in silly actions. Are they crazy! The problem isn’t necessarily the notion that social networks are a fad, who knows. It’s the reasoning behind that – it’s a fad because the kids like it? There are many, many social networks that are not targeted at kids.

The geocities comparison is patently the most ridiculous comparison I’ve heard in a long time. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. They were both on the web. That’s sort of where the similarities end.

Much of what Ballmer says is intrinsically wrong. Or if the conclusions are not necessarily wrong, he’s assessment of how he got to that conclusion is flawed and bound to result in silly actions.

]]> By: Ben http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6124 Ben Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:17:59 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-6124 Did you read the TechCrunch article on this? http://tinyurl.com/ynw6el Did you read the TechCrunch article on this?

http://tinyurl.com/ynw6el

]]> By: felix http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6122 felix Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:43:19 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-6122 LOL!!1!eleven!!!1 Good times. Good times. LOL!!1!eleven!!!1 Good times. Good times.

]]> By: howie http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-6121 howie Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:30:31 +0000 http://comments.deasil.com/2007/10/03/microsoft-ballmer-facebook/#comment-6121 its almost like saying that coca-cola is just some carbonated water and sugar, scientifically easy to produce so the company is pretty much worthless. they really get it. its almost like saying that coca-cola is just some carbonated water and sugar, scientifically easy to produce so the company is pretty much worthless.

they really get it.

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