Tablet Group at MicroSoft Eliminated?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
From an op-ed in today's NYTimes by former MSFT VP Dick Brass, "Microsoft's Creative Destruction":



"...despite the certainty that an Apple tablet was coming this year, the tablet group at Microsoft was eliminated."



The whole piece is a rather scathing indictment of MicroSoft's failure to innovate during the past decade, due to cut throat internal competition.

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    bageljoeybageljoey Posts: 2,009member
    Sounds like leadership issues. If the top brass is behind a new idea and allow it to be sabatoged by a project leader...well, that is just sad. It shouldn't take a charismatic, insanely driven leader (like Jobs) to get people to worry about the big picture, but I guess it helps.



    Who knows? Maybe it is the lack of fear. They know, becase of their dominance with Windows and Office, that the money will come rolling in. Why risk changing anything? Palm and Blackberry (and maybe Amazon) have no such guarentees, so they have been able to make some dramatic changes in their product offering to become competitive again.



    If this is true, then serious credit has to go out to big guys like Apple and Google that still have the guts/drive to take risks. Again, I guess it just comes back to leadership...
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