Dear God!
This is not the image that anyone should get about your company.
The Huffington Post just put out this DEVASTATING article on Microsoft today…
Some quotes
An ongoing survey of over 1,000 Microsoft employees by review website Glassdoor.com concluded that 50% did not approve of Ballmer’s performance as CEO, even though the company reported record revenue in the 2010 fiscal year.
Like perhaps any major company, Microsoft has also struggled to manage an increasingly enormous and fragmented operation, one with over 88,000 current employees worldwide and five major business units. In the telling of many insiders, internal politics and power struggles have often stifled innovation and thwarted coordinated action.
and
In an op-ed in the New York Times published earlier this year, a former Microsoft vice-president, Dick Brass described the company as “a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence.”
also
“If I were Steve Ballmer, I’d be doubling down on enterprise,” says Foley. “That’s where they’re strongest and that’s where they make their money.”
Microsoft is hardly turning its back on the corporations that have been so good to it for so many years. It has been refining a range of offerings intended to tempt corporate IT departments, such as Azure, a cloud computing service that launched earlier this year and has attracted clients like eBay and the Department of Agriculture, and SharePoint, a line of business software products that has been Microsoft’s fastest-growing ever.
But the giant is clearly gearing up for a major run to recapture the masses–this time, not by dint of its monopolistic grip on the desktop, but by the force and appeal of its innovations, another phrase not frequently uttered in connection with the company back in its halcyon days.
The only certainty is this: Microsoft will be around in a major way if for no other reason than the dollars at play.
“They have more money than God,” says MIT’s Anderson.
A great article and an interesting read for sure.
What do you think about Microsoft?
Do you agree with the article?
All Comments
I agree with the general sentiments of the article. Very well written…
It’s pretty obvious that Microsoft have been on the decline for a while…
Facebook are calling them the underdog? Sheesh… this is a sad day
As a long time user (since 1991) I consider Microsoft products very poor, lots of issues, not user friendly and the customer service is extremely poor. I do not recommend Microsoft products to anyone that can look elsewhere.
Bullshit
Thank you for this information
no surprise on any of it.. from the obnoxious experiences i have had with the microsoft corp. lately, they have gone from changing the world and preparing all of us for this wonderous space age thing to showing very pathetically that nickle and diming their way into as much money as possible is the only criteria of what looks now like everybody in the company. too bad. they used to be the best. now there seems to be so much inter-office hatred and compitition that theyve difinately proven they are all very willing to take all of us down with their compition. the obscene way that {whoever} is handling this whole vista vs. 7 thang with the hacking, unsigned preloads of vista, outdated {WAY OUTDATED} certificates, screwed up language codes, etc. etc. etc. etc….. so everybody must go buy 7 as the NEW… or enemy,, is something that is really showing that the whole we need more and better technology is a myth and not even remotely believed by anyone who works for any of these companies…..but hey at least some have figured out ways to make all those debts that go with all those identity thefts go away so only the shadow knows………..do ya think anybody who complains is going to have to put up with having hits put out on them and forced to live yet with the terrorists are the evil guys myths…………… i would dearly love to challange anyone who gives a crap about anyof it to do a forensics study of all the preloaded {and not} stuff that sure seems to be being deliberatelly messed up. Unfortunately, nobody gives a crap…. and i sure am sick of having to call india for customer service for all my technology needs…………..
What a wasted effort
absolutely shocked to hear all this stuff about the “GIANT”!!
How can the world of desktop computing be any other way, for now? Microsoft will continue its dominance until there is another revolution in hardware or software that alters the technology enough that it evens the playing field in terms of the development needed to bring it to the public. Has it even been imagined yet?
And do I care what the Post has tried to tell me? The author spouts various points, but that is all. Is the sky falling? What else supports this theory? How does all of this affect me?
Thanks Mr. Onuora Amobi, I enjoy reading your articles
Secondly I like Microsoft as they look-after users & keep struggling with present online threats
Once my CPU’s use remained 60% busy; I re-loaded my windows as my backup was also affected that time.Earlier too Microsoft listened to my call & helped me through their Action Center
Thanks to their security updates, I din’t get any malware attack for the last 8 month.
I think Microsoft will be around and it’s no different than any other big corp.There is a lot of garbage that should be thrown out.
They need the money more than God does.
I changed over begrudgingly to “windows” in 1994 because I bought OS2 and realized it would soon become a train wreck. Anyone in IT knew of the win3.1 shortcomings, but at the same time I built my system for less than 1/4 the cost of Apple’s PowerPC offerings. Like many I learned to manually-edit .INI files and later amend the registry.
When windows 95 came forth “microsoft” merely found a way to hide the
DOS prompt — many of us didn’t figure that out for several years, but
there was very little “new.”
Dave Cutler’s NT engine brought forward profound changes that very few
hobbyists or businesses could afford or justify. The money kept pouring
in regardless of which edition consumers used. Whether you chose
DOSwin or NT, the real problems came forth when users installed Trumpet
Winsock and put their systems on the network. Viruses no longer moved
just by BBS and shared diskettes — now they could come right across
your phone line or Ethernet connection. Assuming “microsoft” could
completely cure the problem within windows 8 release, that would in no
way impact tens of millions of open “windows proxies” all over the
world. This is how the vast majority of email spams are transmitted.
Meanwhile Apple continued to lose market share, but they completely
rewrote their code, incorporating elements of BSD and Next OS. They
lost some devotees of OS9, but they also gained in many market segments
where buyers wanted OSX’ great reliability and security. All the while
MS continued to paste functions and features into their NT engine.
Every time they do, new threats and buffer overruns are introduced.
win8 has a few enhancements, but is in too many respects the same old
story all over again. You don’t get security by adding something on —
it comes from having a core that’s strong and secure.
“windows” business side will continue to be strong for at least another
six years, if only out of inertia — and because so many are opposed to
change. But unless MS takes the plunge and starts again from the ground
up, their revenue will continue its demise. Once something better
comes along, and I believe it will, customers will jump ship with
amazing speed.
Steve
I would not believe anything I read on the Huff and Puff post just as I dont believe everything I read on RightWing posts either. But to make this worse, they quote the NY Times, a newspaper that by its own statement is a hard left newspaper and has been caught in so many lies that it is just about to be cut lose from its owners to sink or swim on its own. And considering that it has lost well over 70% of its readers since the 1960’s, you can guess that the last words you will hear from this rag is “glub glub” when it closes it’s doors for lack of readership. I mean how far has this paper fallen when every day you see commercials BEGGING people to buy a subscription to it.