August 28, 2007

eat the world

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8 Responses to “eat the world”

  1. Britt Raybould says:
    August 28, 2007 at 3:22 PM

    I’ve read your blog for seve­ral months and love your busi­ness card dra­wings. This one, howe­ver, ins­tantly became my new desk­top. You’ve just made my mor­ning brigh­ter. Thank you for sha­ring your talent and ideas.

  2. Lars says:
    August 28, 2007 at 4:41 PM

    Blue mons­ter 2.0?

  3. hugh macleod says:
    August 28, 2007 at 4:58 PM

    Lars, I was WAITING for someone to say that.
    But it’s too obvious. MSFT “Eating the world” is no lon­ger the timely story it once was. Those days are long past. There are more inte­res­ting MSFT out there now… And if you really unders­tood the Blue Mons­ter, you’d get that.

  4. Lars says:
    August 28, 2007 at 5:37 PM

    Zune? Red rings of death? Stee­ring wheels of fire? DRM that doesn’t work? The cof­fee table of the future? An OS of the future that peo­ple are down­gra­ding from? To me that’s the story MSFT is telling us at the moment. (I do like DX10 howe­ver — that seems to be the one area where Mic­ro­soft is doing some seriously kick ass stuff.)
    Blue Mons­ter always struck me as rin­ging hollow. Look at the lea­dership. Does Steve Ball­mer want to change the world? No, he’s just another anno­ying sales guy who wants to lock me into a 50 year con­tract so he can get his bonus this month. I can see the macho man part of the blue mons­ter thing appea­ling to that sort of guy  — “Mic­ro­soft: Sell 100,000 units this month or go home!!”

  5. hugh macleod says:
    August 28, 2007 at 10:15 PM

    Really ori­gi­nal thin­king there, Lars. Maybe you should take over Ballmer’s job…

  6. Lars says:
    August 29, 2007 at 12:01 AM

    Lol. I don’t think I could keep a straight face while tal­king about Mic­ro­soft inno­va­tion in my first press con­fe­rence. I’d last about 10 seconds before I star­ted giggling.

  7. hugh macleod says:
    August 29, 2007 at 7:10 AM

    I’m gig­gling too, Lars.… but for dif­fe­rent rea­sons ;-)

  8. robert says:
    August 30, 2007 at 12:59 PM

    Come Sep­tem­ber I’m be han­ging to see Hugh’s Revo­lu­tion 2.0 or what’s under the tar­pau­lin.
    Can’t wait to see what is in store from Hugh.
    Will it be Revo­lu­tion 2.0 or Go Home?
    Aaaargh the suspense!