Be here now? Is it possible the MSFT Marcom team wasn't aware of the book by Ram Dass?
Ok, where do I start? I certainly am experiencing a certain schadenfreude over the lastest misfire over at the Microsoft camp in Redmond…And not because I wish those hard working teams ill fortune. Simply because the failure of their management team enforced oft tried and true methodology of replicating a successful product with profit as the main goal was so obvious out of the gate, that no amount of smoke and mirrors would help them achieve success.
For context, here is quote from a recent PC World review:
The problem is that under that pretty, toned exterior lies a couch potato of an operating system, one that seems unwilling and perhaps unable to hoist itself off the couch. It’s not so much lipstick on a pig as it is lipstick on a sloth.
Watching Steve Ballmer introduce this device was painful to say the least… The usually pomp and attempt to instill a sense of sincerity, the faux vision, Steve even opens with the same line his nemesis did, in saying “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time…” ha! (more…)
