[TLUG]: Re: [TLUG]: Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 11 17:54:43 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 01:40:58PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> Very good observations here. When I read the article last week, it reminded
> me of Jack Welsh of General Electric.  The guy took this to a whole new
> level. There is some business books out praising his management skills and
> the market at that time thought it was a great idea too. When I read about
> it back at business school, I thought it was not a good idea and always
> suspect GE could be even better long run if they did not have Welsh as CEO.
> 
> Market and actually even governments are short minded these days and no one
> want to think long term. I always swing my head when I hear someone talking
> about efficiency to the extreme, I mean the 5 sigma stuff. Take a case of
> Volkswagen, they are doing great because they looked at thing long term
> even when it was not profitable then.
> 
> Anyway,  I guess what I am trying to say is these guys should give
> Microsoft a break.  History is full of companies that made the same
> mistakes and they wrote how great an idea it was.
> 
> Microsoft problems are external and these internal problems would not be a
> big deal if external factors were not too bad. And you can't expect every
> CEO to win as Job. That is to repeat the same mistake the article is
> whining about.

Well Windows 8 (the UI part of it specificly) is as obviously a bad idea
as the Pentium 4 was.  It is simply obvious looking at it that it is a
bad idea.

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