Comments on: So why did mighty Microsoft turn so wimpy?

The e-mail revelations coming to light paint a picture of a company at odds with its fearsome reputation. How do you explain the striking contrast between reality and perception?

[colamix]

flagg3 you are so right and a basic concept of retail sales proves it. It goes like this: A satisfied customer will only talk about a product or service when asked. A dissatisfied customer will volunteer his/her dissatisfaction every chance they get. These pro-Microsoft shills are like Vista's Aero interface, they are transparent to those who care to notice. Judging by the speed with which they respond to negative Vista articles, I wouldn't be surprised to find out they use Google News Alerts ;)

[alfred_bowman]

Microsoft should consider that Intel has a new development partner in Apple. This has led to additional SSE instructions that Apple wanted when it switched to Intel CPU' for the Mac plus development of a sharply reduced size CPU for the Macbook Air. It it really is time for MS to make nice to Intel.

[eldernorm]

I think that its too late for Microsoft to make nice to anyone. And I an not sure if they know how. Recently Bill Gates was heard to mutter when someone asked about Steve Jobs, he commented under his breath, "Doesn't he get it, he is immaterial. He does not matter any more."

Gates and Microsoft is ready to take over the world, but as Steve Jobs said, ---- "You have to skate to where the puck will be, not to where it was." Jobs gets it.

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[ServedUp]

I think originally that was Wayne Gretzky's line. But yes point well taken.

[falkensmaze]

What does jobs get Ive been listening to this cr*p for years now yet Microdosh love em or h8 em are stronger that ever yes EVER!! Even vista the latest "failure" has been a huge success, i feel sorry for jobs if he hadn't screwed up with scully things may have been more interesting ( im sure it would have been better from both camps) but come on after 33 years gates GOT IT!!

[Jon N.]

10,000 programmers in Redmond, WA vs. 50,000+ programmers in the Linux Universe. I want Linux to win, of course, since Apple refuses to port OS X to non-Apple hardware. That said, if Microsoft wants to stay relevant in the OS market, it's time to open up your OS, submit it to the G.P.L., and keep all of your other software proprietary. Microsoft! You can't do it all by yourselves anymore! It's time to Open Source all your Windows OpSys code NOW!

[onlyauser]

Jon N. is correct. It is too early to count them out if they can respond to the failure of Vista in a smart way to survice and even thrive. All MS need to do is open up the OS and submit it to GLP.

Brilliant, now that is the type of move that would keep MS realevant ...well as long as GLP was relevant?which I thing could be a few hundred years (maybe). The two groups, MS and GLP, teamed up with new open MS tech would be a very powerful union and free huge amounts of investment money for MS to invest in a REAL future for once. Also it is the pest possible move MS could make to pull its head out of the Vista noose.

[adamtp1]

You can't read anything about Microsoft without every Tom, Dick & European schmo crying "monopoly"! Just look at what Google did when Micro tried to buy Yahoo. Not afraid of a little compitition are we now? And to those in the west, how often do you buy a concert ticket that isn't Ticketmaster? No stranglehold there huh?
Microsoft should buy a foundering (that's failing for the non-brainiac crowd) computer manufacturer and make it's own system & tell Europe and all the other whiners afraid of using mental muscle to be better than or out-do Microsoft to shove off!!