Comments on: highly recommended reading:

By: Ciaran McCabe

Ciaran McCabe — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:49:08 +0000

Bit snippy that last comment, but, maybe Microsoft recorded
their meetings at W&K. I think if they are serious about the advertising business then a re-listen to those tapes might help.
No, I’ve not got any stake in W&K, I go back to late 60’s CDP in London.

By: Maggie Leber

Maggie Leber — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:50:11 +0000

Not really…such counterfactual speculation has low survival value.
But I probably should be counted amongst the “base your expectations of what MSFT will do in the future based on your analysis of what it has done in the past” crowd. “The horse might sing” is seldom a component of a winning strategy.

By: nancy

nancy — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 00:21:51 +0000

microsoft exists.
Cyber life is a matryoshka doll.
It gives me a chance to be nestled inside a smaller kinder, funnier matryoshka doll before being engulfed in the largest model.

By: hugh macleod

hugh macleod — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:40:43 +0000

Maggie, I do hope you’re not a member of the “If only MSFT had never existed, imagine how much more happy and productive Everybody would be” crowd

By: Maggie Leber

Maggie Leber — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:18:29 +0000

MSFT has “decided to play nice”?
Who knew they could be such “nice” guys, protecting us from big bad monopolist Google like that?
It’s truly admirable that they deign to not vaporise the people who understand a business they intend to enter (but admit they don’t yet understand) until that knowledge is assimilated or obsoleted.
Never before have we seen them promise to “be nice” to partners right up to the moment they decide to take total control. Will there be a Ballmer video chanting “Marketers!” soon?

By: nancy

nancy — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:27:12 +0000

Mr. Ballmer,
too bad you threw away all those archives from your newsgroups. Such very rich ideas the people had there. You could have used them for idea generating. Silly Blue Monster again. (rapid action digestive tract copyrighted 2007 nmk. don’t you even think about using that)
Note: if you are wondering at sarcasm, scorn, or menopausal madness.
it’s neither/ nor/ nor.
Just the facts, man or ma’am.

By: Paul Fabretti

Paul Fabretti — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:45:30 +0000

Couldn’t agree more Hugh. It was a great piece which brought into very few words what I am sure was an enormous piece of work/promotion.

By: Clive Birnie

Clive Birnie — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:43:54 +0000

given that the experience is very much in the hands of the user I for one remain hopeful that the algorithm will never come…