I care about the jobs of thousands of people who work there sure, may sound
a bit old and cliched but there are some things that only Governments and
big corporations can afford to do and we all need to move forward - better
Microsoft than any Government - but I think some at Microsoft should lose
their jobs, the totally counter productive ones, and the same applies to
Governments.
You can't keep on denying problems and living on past successes, nobody
can to that.
Things change - how often you hear it said in these groups that all it
needs is new hardware, minimal investment etc etc. Problem is there are an
increasing number of people who can afford NO investment, and the US
appears to me to be heading toward a recession. It is not going to get
dramatically better any time soon.
So you are running a business with customers, even some very big ones,
watching expenditure very carefully, you are selling things that have
perfectly viable but FREE alternatives. There are physical limits to how
much farther your technology can be pushed and limits to what "Extra" you
can provide over what the other guy is offering. The technology already
out in the market can supply more than 90% of customer needs.
Is this a good time to get arrogant with customers and try to tell them
what they can and cannot do? Is it a good time to say to your prospective
purchaser "Our product is fine, you must be a cheapskate or a dumbass"???
I think not
Competition is not only good it is essential, both the proprietary market
and the open source communities can exist - probably both innovate better
if the competition was more "Friendly" and less about litigation - from
which only lawyers make money - and in the end if one side needs a kick in
the backside so be it
Well said. In fact, you are the one who really cares about MS.
Andre is the kind of person who will bring down a company.
Charlie Tame said:
Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] wrote:
The point is, they will be deploying Windows, not Linux and they will
be deploying Vista, so its a win-win for Microsoft either way. This
typical of most coporate deployments.
No, the point is they are keeping their options open, until Microsoft
get the check nothing is certain, and it may have been typical until now
but that also is not guaranteed. No organization can guarantee what
circumstances they will find themselves in a year from now. Plans do not
always work out.
Why you remain unconcerned about the fact that competition is becoming
more and more capable, a fact that Microsoft themselves appear to be
concerned about but seem unable to identify the cause of, is quite
surprising.
Pride often comes before a fall, an old saying but nonetheless true.
The single most important thing any business portrays to it's clients is
attitude. Enough said.
