I worked for Ericsson, they are one of the most misguided tech companies out there. They invest heavily in horrible, doomed, ideas. Only job I ever quit; I didn't want to go down on that sinking ship.
I have also read several comments from usually reliable sources that Gates plans to take a more active role at Microsoft. That sounds like he will be taking a more day to day decision making role than the chairmanship usually involves. In that case it would appear that he's looking for a puppet/fall guy. Of the people currently under discussion, and with the little I know about them, Stephen Elop would appear to be the best for that role.
Why do you think he's no better than Baller? Which were bad calls while on the clock? I'm not familiar with this CEO.
simple look at the company he is coming from, they have lots of the same issue as M$ has. M$ needs and I hate to say this, 2 CEO, on who can manage the cash cow, and another to think about the future and move them forward. That will not happen, they will keep trying to find a person who is already a CEO and give him/her the job and hope they can fix it. Most likely you will see more than one CEO in the next 5 yrs.
Ericsson was in 1997 the worlds biggest cellphone company. They where the biggest base station company. Over 140000 employees.
Then Ericsson hired ex Microsoft Rolf Skoglund as their IT officer. Until then every single worker had a Unix workstation or a diskless client/Xserve. This could not MSFT "ex" boss handle. He instituted "Ericsson system office environment". Everyone should have a PC with Exchange.
To make a long story short: You can't develop new phones in Excel. Clippy can't design new base stations. The Unix purge. Swap a working environment against a non working MSFT environment. Phones where delayed. Base stations where delayed. Productivity went down. IT cost skyrocketed. They needed 1 PC support per 10PCs compare to 1 Unix support /150 WS.
In just 5 years the share price went from 270SEK to 3SEK. All thanks to MSFT. Today Ericsson have exited the mobile phone business.
Nokia copied every single misstake that Ericsson did.
So the irony is that Ericsson takes over MSFT. MSFT destroyed Ericsson. Now maybe we can destroy MSFT.
Because we can't save MSFT. They have zero good product that consumers buy with their free will.
Solution is to make great products, something that is against the DNA of MSFT. MSFT lives in an "upgrade" world. Make stuff bad enough that people want to upgrade every 24 month.
How to make great products:
1) Start windows from scratch. BSD/Unix open source foundation with a windows interface over it so that they can "copyright" it.
2) Take control over ARM RT. Fix development tools for FAT binaries so that stuff can use both X86 and ARM. License "rosetta" to run X86 code on ARM.
3) Get an ARM license and develop custom ARM cores. Look at the OS and what it needs and put it into the ARM core that you control.
4) Agressive pricing on WinRT. F the OEMs. Sell Surface for 199 dollars and make money from apps.
Hire Ivy as designer and Forestal as CEO and MSFT would be BETTER then Apple.
(Apple fans/people who have been in MSFT research labs have said that MSFT is todays Apple. But MSFT are not allowed to release the stuff because of OEMs and that they would kill their own customers. MSFT needs to get an Apple attitude and kill its owns product lines like Iphone did with iPod.)
I will add to this story, Motorola was Unix workstation company, and one of the very first company to deploy Mac across the company and they got a new IT person who ripped out all the Mac and Unix work stations and replacement with PC, and we now know the story of Motorola who was the inventory of Cell phone communications in the US.
I bet is someone spent the time and look at what M$ cost companies in real $ and lost opportunities people would be surprise that is for sure. Most PC IT people I know hate Apple since they know their job would be gone if the company deployed Macs.
Yet another useless article that has nothing to Apple, designed only to feed the trolls and spawn MS hate
There is a magazine you might not have heard of called the "New Yorker." They print many articles which have nothing to do with New York. The current edition even has a cover story on the governor of New Jersey, if you can believe that! You should explain to them clearly the rules of permissible publishing based on the magazine name. And don't get me started about the "Atlantic Monthly."
Wow Gates and Ballmer sure didn't do a very good job of succession planning.
Apple did a great job of it and they get attacked because Tim Cook isn't literally a cline of Steve Jobs. You simply can't grow a clone faster than the aging process without using a ysalamiri*.
There is a magazine you might not have heard of called the "New Yorker." They print many articles which have nothing to do with New York. The current edition even has a cover story on the governor of New Jersey, if you can believe that! You should explain to them clearly the rules of permissible publishing based on the magazine name. And don't get me started about the "Atlantic Monthly."
Except the New Yorker does not claim to provide "New York news and rumors since 1997"
Why do you think he's no better than Baller? Which were bad calls while on the clock? I'm not familiar with this CEO.
simple look at the company he is coming from, they have lots of the same issue as M$ has. M$ needs and I hate to say this, 2 CEO, on who can manage the cash cow, and another to think about the future and move them forward. That will not happen, they will keep trying to find a person who is already a CEO and give him/her the job and hope they can fix it. Most likely you will see more than one CEO in the next 5 yrs.
Good point. And if they stick with the old 'one CEO formula' they'll most likely get a Sales/Finance person who isn't a visionary or anything like that. This way they will keep on selling licenses to the large corporations, and probably remain in business for the next generation, but nothing great will come from them. Oh well.
I bet is someone spent the time and look at what M$ cost companies in real $ and lost opportunities people would be surprise that is for sure. Most PC IT people I know hate Apple since they know their job would be gone if the company deployed Macs.
This is discussed many times and in great detail at large companies. Still they won't change over because of the initial cost and 'change is freightening'. Sad.
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Seems like a perfect fit for Microsoft.
Yet another useless article that has nothing to Apple, designed only to feed the trolls and spawn MS hate
Spawn?
No. No. A lot of us went through the 80s and 90s... we have a long history of hating Microsoft.
1) LOL
2) Sad
3) Feeling empathy
Not enough sweat on his shirt.
-eb
So Microsoft is putting a gun to people's heads and forcing them to buy an X-Box?
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I know, I paid too much.
Maybe I should send him the book.
I know, I paid too much.
Did the "Interactive CD" create the bsd on your computer?
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Cast your votes for RMS!
I have also read several comments from usually reliable sources that Gates plans to take a more active role at Microsoft. That sounds like he will be taking a more day to day decision making role than the chairmanship usually involves. In that case it would appear that he's looking for a puppet/fall guy. Of the people currently under discussion, and with the little I know about them, Stephen Elop would appear to be the best for that role.
Why do you think he's no better than Baller? Which were bad calls while on the clock? I'm not familiar with this CEO.
simple look at the company he is coming from, they have lots of the same issue as M$ has. M$ needs and I hate to say this, 2 CEO, on who can manage the cash cow, and another to think about the future and move them forward. That will not happen, they will keep trying to find a person who is already a CEO and give him/her the job and hope they can fix it. Most likely you will see more than one CEO in the next 5 yrs.
The irony...
Ericsson was in 1997 the worlds biggest cellphone company. They where the biggest base station company. Over 140000 employees.
Then Ericsson hired ex Microsoft Rolf Skoglund as their IT officer. Until then every single worker had a Unix workstation or a diskless client/Xserve. This could not MSFT "ex" boss handle. He instituted "Ericsson system office environment". Everyone should have a PC with Exchange.
To make a long story short: You can't develop new phones in Excel. Clippy can't design new base stations. The Unix purge. Swap a working environment against a non working MSFT environment. Phones where delayed. Base stations where delayed. Productivity went down. IT cost skyrocketed. They needed 1 PC support per 10PCs compare to 1 Unix support /150 WS.
In just 5 years the share price went from 270SEK to 3SEK. All thanks to MSFT. Today Ericsson have exited the mobile phone business.
Nokia copied every single misstake that Ericsson did.
So the irony is that Ericsson takes over MSFT. MSFT destroyed Ericsson. Now maybe we can destroy MSFT.
Because we can't save MSFT. They have zero good product that consumers buy with their free will.
Solution is to make great products, something that is against the DNA of MSFT. MSFT lives in an "upgrade" world. Make stuff bad enough that people want to upgrade every 24 month.
How to make great products:
1) Start windows from scratch. BSD/Unix open source foundation with a windows interface over it so that they can "copyright" it.
2) Take control over ARM RT. Fix development tools for FAT binaries so that stuff can use both X86 and ARM. License "rosetta" to run X86 code on ARM.
3) Get an ARM license and develop custom ARM cores. Look at the OS and what it needs and put it into the ARM core that you control.
4) Agressive pricing on WinRT. F the OEMs. Sell Surface for 199 dollars and make money from apps.
Hire Ivy as designer and Forestal as CEO and MSFT would be BETTER then Apple.
(Apple fans/people who have been in MSFT research labs have said that MSFT is todays Apple. But MSFT are not allowed to release the stuff because of OEMs and that they would kill their own customers. MSFT needs to get an Apple attitude and kill its owns product lines like Iphone did with iPod.)
I will add to this story, Motorola was Unix workstation company, and one of the very first company to deploy Mac across the company and they got a new IT person who ripped out all the Mac and Unix work stations and replacement with PC, and we now know the story of Motorola who was the inventory of Cell phone communications in the US.
I bet is someone spent the time and look at what M$ cost companies in real $ and lost opportunities people would be surprise that is for sure. Most PC IT people I know hate Apple since they know their job would be gone if the company deployed Macs.
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Yet another useless article that has nothing to Apple, designed only to feed the trolls and spawn MS hate
There is a magazine you might not have heard of called the "New Yorker." They print many articles which have nothing to do with New York. The current edition even has a cover story on the governor of New Jersey, if you can believe that! You should explain to them clearly the rules of permissible publishing based on the magazine name. And don't get me started about the "Atlantic Monthly."
I can't imagine anyone doing any worse.
Apple did a great job of it and they get attacked because Tim Cook isn't literally a cline of Steve Jobs. You simply can't grow a clone faster than the aging process without using a ysalamiri*.
* Very osbcure reference
There is a magazine you might not have heard of called the "New Yorker." They print many articles which have nothing to do with New York. The current edition even has a cover story on the governor of New Jersey, if you can believe that! You should explain to them clearly the rules of permissible publishing based on the magazine name. And don't get me started about the "Atlantic Monthly."
Except the New Yorker does not claim to provide "New York news and rumors since 1997"
Good point. And if they stick with the old 'one CEO formula' they'll most likely get a Sales/Finance person who isn't a visionary or anything like that. This way they will keep on selling licenses to the large corporations, and probably remain in business for the next generation, but nothing great will come from them. Oh well.
This is discussed many times and in great detail at large companies. Still they won't change over because of the initial cost and 'change is freightening'. Sad.
Wow! An interactive CD-ROM! That’s Jurassic Park levels of spared no expense!
Also, it’s “the road ahead”, but the pictures shows what’s behind him. The photographer’s standing on the edge of a cliff, terrified.