Where do we go from here
Following is posted in reaction to post, Wednesday October 12, 2005, at http://minimsft.blogspot.com
Where do we go from here?
I don't work for Microsoft; however, I am a dedicated Windows programmer, with enough experience to know that you need to address the cause of a problem if you wish to solve it. All the things you list are symptoms, or you might call them lower level causes. You must address the ultimate cause if you want to see changes, because he built the monster and only he can change the monster.
Someway or another, we, you insiders and us outsiders must create a religious experience for Mr. Gates -- the sort of thing that can make him take a hard look at what he is doing, or not doing. He must wake up to the fact that Microsoft is on a long, long, downward spiral, a tail-spin, so to speak -- and as anyone that flies, knows, you don't get out of a tail-spin with continued back pressure on the stick. You must use forward pressure, something that seems un-natural at the time.
Microsoft has lost customer trust -- and trust can not be regained by the PR department -- It can only be earned, by how the company treats it's customers, it's vendors and it's employees. When Mr. Gates starts trusting the world and changes behavior -- only then will the world start trusting him and his company.
Microsoft must negotiate a new settlement with the DOJ and the EU -- Unbundle Windows -- Drop XP activation -- Build a secure O/S -- Replace Windows 2000 -- Fire the PR department -- I think that you get the idea.
BTW, I have some software that I believe would give Mr. Gates that religious experience -- http://pdmsb.com.
Good Luck
Doug Skoglund - skoglund@pdmsb.com
You may use my SAMail to contact me or put a [MYWAY] in the subject line.
Where do we go from here?
I don't work for Microsoft; however, I am a dedicated Windows programmer, with enough experience to know that you need to address the cause of a problem if you wish to solve it. All the things you list are symptoms, or you might call them lower level causes. You must address the ultimate cause if you want to see changes, because he built the monster and only he can change the monster.
Someway or another, we, you insiders and us outsiders must create a religious experience for Mr. Gates -- the sort of thing that can make him take a hard look at what he is doing, or not doing. He must wake up to the fact that Microsoft is on a long, long, downward spiral, a tail-spin, so to speak -- and as anyone that flies, knows, you don't get out of a tail-spin with continued back pressure on the stick. You must use forward pressure, something that seems un-natural at the time.
Microsoft has lost customer trust -- and trust can not be regained by the PR department -- It can only be earned, by how the company treats it's customers, it's vendors and it's employees. When Mr. Gates starts trusting the world and changes behavior -- only then will the world start trusting him and his company.
Microsoft must negotiate a new settlement with the DOJ and the EU -- Unbundle Windows -- Drop XP activation -- Build a secure O/S -- Replace Windows 2000 -- Fire the PR department -- I think that you get the idea.
BTW, I have some software that I believe would give Mr. Gates that religious experience -- http://pdmsb.com.
Good Luck
Doug Skoglund - skoglund@pdmsb.com
You may use my SAMail to contact me or put a [MYWAY] in the subject line.
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