April 25, 2006

we need to re-invent

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Robert Sco­ble, Microsoft

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5 Responses to “we need to re-invent”

  1. Simon Cast says:
    April 25, 2006 at 2:31 PM

    What Mic­ro­soft needs to do is switch to a Linux/BSD ker­nel and focus on pro­vi­ding a pro­duc­tive user expe­rience. Simi­lar to what Apple did with OSX.
    That would shake up the mar­ket and Microsoft.

  2. Charles Jolley says:
    April 25, 2006 at 3:00 PM

    I’m not sure MS knows what their Big Idea is right now either. If its just pro­tec­ting what they have, then its not going to fly. A Big Idea needs to be something ever­yone can buy into…investors, emplo­yees, cus­to­mers, and even non-customers.
    Who care’s about pro­tec­ting what MS already has? Inves­tors are seeing no growth, many emplo­yees are unhappy, and cer­tainly cus­to­mers, many of whom have been vic­tim to MS bull­ying tac­tics have no ves­ted inte­rest in hel­ping them stay in shape.
    The pro­blem with get­ting too big is that you need inc­rea­singly big­ger ideas to keep ever­yone moti­va­ted. At some point, there just aren’t any taller moun­tains to climb.

  3. john says:
    April 25, 2006 at 8:17 PM

    Thanks for Tom’s pre­cis! Scoble’s post typi­fies all that is wrong with him. Volume, volume, volume. I went to his page assu­ming a long post would take me a few minu­tes to read and lost the will to live very quickly.
    He may have some good insights in there, but whe­reas he can spend a lot of his day pro­du­cing it, the audience has far less time to digest it and, I would argue, will give him less cre­dit than he may deserve because of the impres­sion of flabby thin­king that such lack of con­ci­sion sug­gests.
    Some might argue that this is a metaphor for Microsoft.

  4. phil jones says:
    April 26, 2006 at 3:54 AM

    He he! How can you buy ever­yone a Dell machine run­ning Vista, “now!” when it’s not going to be relea­sed until …

  5. geoff lane says:
    April 26, 2006 at 8:12 AM

    MS should stop mar­ke­ting and start inno­va­ting. Does ANYBODY read those idio­tic ads with peo­ple wea­ring dino­saur heads? Does MS unders­tand that they are calling their OWN cus­to­mers dino­saurs because they haven’t imme­dia­tely upgra­ded to the latest release?
    US car com­pa­nies used to release a “new” model every year that only dif­fe­red from the pre­vious model because of a bit of chrome and slightly big­ger tail fins.
    One day they woke up and dis­co­ve­red the Japa­nese had sto­len the market.