| I have never been to http://minimsft.blogspot.com/ until read this article.
I strong believe that Microsoft's issue is being over-stated. Microsoft is always in the spotlight and being critisized under an amplying glass. Though I agree Microsoft does have issues. Company always has issues, doesn't it? Google also has issues. Google's honeymoon with the public won't last for too long. See, Rob Enderle wrote "they (Google) were increasingly behaving as if they were the center of the universe", "companies, particularly those that grow very quickly, can lose track of their ethics and, by placing their needs in front of all others, move from being widely admired to widely despised". (http://www.technewsworld.com/alert/47289.html) By the way, Burton Smith (http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/smith_01232001/) joined Microsoft yesterday, who is the mastreo in supercomputing area. I guess he is going to be a Distinguished Engineer. Talking about Distinguished Engineer, well, it's true that Mark Lucovsky, one of the 16 Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft, left MSFT early this year. But if someone has been working a company for 16 years and earned so much money from stock options, it's quite normal for him to change job. Sixteen years! No body can always keep passion to the company for even longer than that, expect he is the founder (but Paul Allen ...) or the CEO/President candidate. Not to mention that Mark Lucovsky's HailStorm is a failure, in both terms of technique and business. Even not to mention Kai-Fu Lee's case. Microsoft has more than hundred Vice Presidents. Every year there are a few MSFT VPs retiring/quitting. Things don't make different, no matter the next stop is Google, IBM, Walmart or a start-up. |
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