For as long as I worked at the company, EVEN in the golden years, MS has always been a follower and very rarely a leader in anything they’ve accomplished. Billy/Stevy Come Lately – that’s the idea. Cloud computing – sure, it’s a cool idea, but again MS is following someone else’s lead. I frankly found this to be pathetic and sad.

Time will tell…who knows, the well-funded MS Research might stumble upon cold fusion and find a way out of their deepening gravity well…but it’s unlikely.

For as long as I worked at the company, EVEN in the golden years, MS has always been a follower and very rarely a leader in anything they’ve accomplished. Billy/Stevy Come Lately – that’s the idea. Cloud computing – sure, it’s a cool idea, but again MS is following someone else’s lead. I frankly found this to be pathetic and sad.

Time will tell…who knows, the well-funded MS Research might stumble upon cold fusion and find a way out of their deepening gravity well…but it’s unlikely.

When you think of Azure – don’t think of today, next year or even 3 yrs. Think of the world in 5yrs or 10yrs. That’s where MSFT excels – the company thinks long term and aims to jump on that opportunity whereas Google/ Apple are focused on tomorrow/ next year.

When you think of Azure – don’t think of today, next year or even 3 yrs. Think of the world in 5yrs or 10yrs. That’s where MSFT excels – the company thinks long term and aims to jump on that opportunity whereas Google/ Apple are focused on tomorrow/ next year.

As someone who was deposed by the DOJ twice during the trials, I will not shed any tears. I was also part of a suit against the company over questionable or downright illegal hiring practices that they decided to settle out of court. Let’s not forget how much damage they did in the market and how, through their illegal monopoly (remember they were found guilty), they destroyed some very good companies.

A new vision from a team within Microsoft does not change all the entrenched old guard and their ways of doing things. When Ray Ozzie stated it will take 20-50 years to deliver on the full vision of the new operating system, you know nothing has fundamentally changed.

As someone who was deposed by the DOJ twice during the trials, I will not shed any tears. I was also part of a suit against the company over questionable or downright illegal hiring practices that they decided to settle out of court. Let’s not forget how much damage they did in the market and how, through their illegal monopoly (remember they were found guilty), they destroyed some very good companies.

A new vision from a team within Microsoft does not change all the entrenched old guard and their ways of doing things. When Ray Ozzie stated it will take 20-50 years to deliver on the full vision of the new operating system, you know nothing has fundamentally changed.