“Microsoft employees are becoming increasingly vocal about the ‘funk’ that the company finds itself in,’ Martin LaMonica writes in CNET’s Microsoft Blog.
“A number of blogging company employees have bared their souls, complaining about the problems they see at the software giant,’ LaMonica writes. “Lenn Pryor, in explaining why he is leaving job of director for platform at Microsoft for a position at Sykpe, said this: ‘I just couldn’t go on being an evangelist for a gospel that I don’t believe I can sing.'”
“On Monday, Dare Obasanjo, who works for Microsoft’s MSN division, described himself as one of many employees trying to ‘find somewhere at Microsoft that isn’t overwhelmed by the current malaise that has smothered main campus,'” LaMonica writes, “And in one more indicator, another Microsoft employee blogging under the name Microsophist says that bloggers will push company founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer out of Microsoft.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Couldn’t be happening to a more deserving outfit. Moo.
Read this, it’s funny: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/03/better-off-without-ballmer.html
For Microsoft employees that still dream of innovating: http://www.apple.com/jobs/
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Nearly every segment of the PC food chain needs Longhorn to succeed – April 22, 2005
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Microsoft’s Longhorn: ‘They are shamelessly copying us’ – April 21, 2005
Apple shows off Mac OS Tiger in Microsoft’s backyard while Microsoft previews Windows XP ad push – April 19, 2005
Apple’s Mac OS X reality vs. Microsoft’s Longhorn fantasy – April 19, 2005
Microsoft’s Windows Longhorn will bear more than just a passing resemblance to Apple’s Mac OS X – April 15, 2005
Analyst: ‘Microsoft’s Longhorn is going to have hard time upstaging Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger’ – April 13, 2005
Analyst: Apple in ‘position to exploit Microsoft missteps, claim leadership’ with Mac OS X Tiger – April 13, 2005
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New Microsoft Longhorn chief was former Pepto-Bismol brand manager – March 18, 2005
Microsoft’s Longhorn fantasy vs. Apple’s Mac OS X reality – September 14, 2004
Is Microsoft’s stripped-down ‘Longhorn’ worth waiting for? – September 10, 2004
Silicon Valley: Apple CEO Steve Jobs previews ‘Longhorn’ – June 29, 2004
PC Magazine: Microsoft ‘Longhorn’ preview shows ‘an Apple look’ – May 06, 2004
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I don’t get it…..
Jeff said: “Well, to be fair, there are employees who make similar complaints about almost every large corporation, even Apple:
http://viewfromthemountain.typepad.com/applepeels/“
Jeff, that article is different in one fundamental way from the blog that MDN linked to. The low moral of the people inside MS is what is apparent here, as opposed to someone in Apple who has different views on Apple’s government pricing policy (and rightly so it would seem). The complaints in ApplePeel are hardly similar to those at blogspot.
EXCELLENT!
I will personally give a bottle of champagne to every mac owner if they get rid of Gates and Ballmer!
Wingsy,
The complaint about Apple’s government pricing policy is just the latest post. In another post, he called Apple an “abusive” employer:
http://viewfromthemountain.typepad.com/applepeels/2005/03/the_abusive_com.html
Our grandkids are going to study in history books about the fall of Micro$oft. Tiger will be referenced when they talk about the beginning of the end.
dogcow says MOOF, not Moo.
Jeff and Wingsy, the Apple peels guy is an ex Apple employee. A disgruntled one that worked as a salesman. How that guy worked for Apple for twenty years is beyond me. His writing is poor and his personal website is super “lame”. I wouldn’t base any judgements on this guy’s silly opinions. Also, it seems that most of his sales work has been in the federal sector. So Apple didn’t emphasize sales to the gubmint, he was let go and now he’s pissed. Whaaa! Business decisions sometimes affect people. Like layoffs. Let’s get real now.
Yah, Jeff —
That guy on “viewfromthemountain” has a serious axe to grind. For so much of what he writes he has to really contort himself into all sorts of positions just to even try to make his point.
Plus, it’s ONE guy. At Microsoft, those employees are contracting a virus (pardon the pun) that is slowly insinuating itself into many, many different divisions and individual personnel. Don’t confuse the rantings of a vengeful ex-Apple employee and current dipshit who can’t even properly edit his own blog, with the glorious beginnings of the sociological plague that’s infesting Microsoft.
I say, “All hail the MS plague — to the tune of 20% lost marketshare to Apple!”
I sincerely hope that Gates and Ballmer stay on. Aren’t captains supposed to go down with their sinking ships? Being a multi-billionaire means never having to say you’re sorry.
I dumped M’soft during Windows 3.1. I then put up with years of shite from my windows mates and at work. Apple’s rediscovered innovation and the rest is history. M’soft was never an innovator.
Is M’soft dying, it’s just too early to tell. Remember, they said Apple was dying and during the early to mid ninetiesit it was in decline. By 1997 Apple was on the ropes. Look at the company eight years on, you’d never recognise them.
Don’t right off the Redmond recalcitrants; they’re still worth a bomb and they still control a large share of the personal computer market (via their dipstick OS).
Having made that point we can always hope they ARE on the way out. Still it still feels good to pee on M’soft users …and watch them take it. We had to take it from them and now it’s their turn.
It’s funny, to the point of shaking my head in disbelief, at the lengths of how some will go to defend Longhorn in some of the blogs and responses. I think there were some who asked, and rightly so, how can they compare OS X (which is shipping) with Longhorn (which is not shipping).
We’ll see what Longhorn has to offer when it finally ships. Until then, MS needs to refrain from comparing it to Tiger. Otherwise, it just looks desperate and pathetic.
I haven’t heard from our friend Enderele lately. So has he been staying home lately?
MDN Magic Word: feed
As in “Keep feeding the BS, your users will see right through it, MS.”
From a Microsoft employee on
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/03/better-off-without-ballmer.html
“I’m so pissed that I can barely convey it. I’m a longterm employee and I’m forced to sell an expiring set of options this year from 1998. What are they worth? Well, I haven’t looked at the price today but it was less than $1 a share last week based on our 1998 strike price.
F**k that. I should go work for Google, Apple or anyone else who can grow their stock and actually ship something.”
Bert’s post is instructive. A lot of the malaise in Redmond can be linked directly to their stagnant stock price, I think. MS is essentially too big to be a growth company now (just like walmart). But like Walmart, don’t assume because growth is stalled they are on the way out or someting. (If only…)
For example, if MS Office was a separate company, it would be bigger than Oracle.
So is MS going to lose it’s market dominance? Not easily, because so many people and enterprises are unwilling to leave MS until they see someone else doing it. So they all sit there, hating their OS, but unwilling to leave the abusive relationship.
MS may be stagnant, sluggish and confused-looking, but The Empire is far from weak. They could bombard every mac user with a huge sack of money, crush him or her to death after several misses, and still have money left over to convince the government they were simply encouraging competitive market behavior.
And Longhorn could be an actual steaming longhorn turd in a box, and most of their user base would still spend hours trying to cram it into their PC’s CD slot anyhow.
And hey, I’m a mac lover. That’s just how I see things.