Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[OOMV6]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/03/the-terrible-management-technique-that-cost-microsoft-its-creativity/

[jtypecav]

This is shocking. Not that it's unheard of, just that they are STILL doing it. Academe left this kind of view of student attainment over 20 years ago. Yet one of the largest mega cos.. it's only the odd niche that is allowed to breathe.

Read that they had registered Xbox 8 recently. Lets hope that's just a ruse. Watch them staple Xbox 8 to Windows 8 and suffocate the console. Might as well call it Zune. I find it funny that it's so transparent that Apple is a company that came from User Experience (UX), Google came from refining streams of data and MS came from doing what the competitors did more competitively (and not in terms of price!) and you can always tell the driving force, throughout use of the platform.

You can even see where innovation starts to get eroded by pure greed as MS loss lead new hardware they put thought into the dashboard etc.. then as the platform matures they stuff more and more ads onto it, and reduce their own funded content. This is the weight of money men to innovators. They get pushed out!

[Kevin Wood]

You've only got to see that idiot Balmer in public to realise something's not quite right if he's the cream of their management structure.

[TheBoy]

Its not just Microsoft. It seems it is the American Corporate way of doing things.  I certainly know, come Novemeber, how many good/medium/poor annual reviews will be dished out in our department.  And, yes, I agree with the article, it stiffles innovation.

Microsoft have most definately lost their way in the last 2 or 3 years, stopped doing what they used to do best, and tried to reinvent itself as a cloud company (business divisions) and an Apple beater (consumer).  Windows 8 clearly shows there are competing factions within the company. Worse, I suspect the company's future is dependent on Windows 8, so they will use their entire arsenal, the new Xbox included, to try to succeed.

[TheBoy]

Trouble is, there is no viable alternative to Windows/Office.

[Dishevelled Den]

Thank God for Microsoft, they made it possible for mouth-breathers like me to actually use computers in a practical everyday manner.

[aaronjb]

If I commented on this thread .. I'd probably get fired.

[TheBoy]

If I commented on this thread .. I'd probably get fired.

Not many know where I work, so hopefully I'm safe

[cem_devecioglu]

still I prefer their products to anything on the market.. dont want to go back to old days where nothing is compatible and integrated  .. young engineers may want to go in their nose direction but company must earn money..
 
software industry is not like building cars, you simply sell and then change models.. as a programmer we have to support and implement even old systems.. so I would happily prefer microsoft to slow down

[TheBoy]

so I would happily prefer microsoft to slow down

They have.

Windows 2000 was an absolutely fantatsic product. Nothing new has come out of the Windows division since really. Same with the other Backoffice products, perhaps with the exception of Exchange, which saw a huge improvement in 2007.

[cem_devecioglu]

the last microsoft sql product I installed was sql2008 and its been long time they announced sql2012 which we have seen some features in course.. no time to test and install in production unfortunately  
 
 

[TheBoy]

the last microsoft sql product I installed was sql2008 and its been long time they announced sql2012 which we have seen some features in course.. no time to test and install in production unfortunately

Not seen 2012 yet, 2008r2 is the latest I've used.

[cem_devecioglu]

the last microsoft sql product I installed was sql2008 and its been long time they announced sql2012 which we have seen some features in course.. no time to test and install in production unfortunately

Not seen 2012 yet, 2008r2 is the latest I've used.

have so many extra services and tools.. reporting services have very good properties that most reports wont need to be written (creates web reports directly).. IIRC there were 3d (olap) commands and multidimensional reports to my surprise .. very easy to build..
 
and command execution plan analysis were much more developed.. it shows which indexes are used for execution..
 
I really liked it..