“To its credit, despite my frequent, loudmouthed criticism, Microsoft has graciously offered to let me sit in on a Vista and Office launch event in New York. CEO Steve Ballmer will be there, and apparently there will be a ‘moderated Q&A’ after we have a little nosh,” Seth Jayson reports for The Motley Fool.
“I’d love to ask Ballmer, “Dude, can I ‘squirt’ you a little something from my brown Zune?” so he could see just how lame “the social” is in reality. Or I’d like to hit him with, “Why did uninstalling Office 2007 cripple my Office 2003 software?” and share my ongoing reinstallation nightmare,” Jayson writes. “But instead, I’m going to give this opportunity to all you Fools out there. Assuming they let me up to the mic following this little stunt, I hereby pledge my face time to ask a question of your suggestion.”
Jayson writes, “Wondering why Mr. Softy doesn’t just leave the portable media space to Apple? Want to know why it continues to butt heads with Google and Yahoo! on search, even though it’s getting trounced? Want to know why there’s still so little video and music content on the Xbox 360, despite serious, device-integrated challenges from Disney and Sony?”
Jayson writes, “Here’s your chance to query Microsoft.”
Send your suggestions to Mr. Seth Jayson here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Adam W.” for the heads up.]
Don’t bother sending “Why don’t you seek professional help?” as we’ve already sent that one in ourselves.
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Loved reading every one of these 2 pages of comments! No, I am not lying, and, yes, I have no life. Some real gems in there.
Fanatic Realist,
Actually, I know what’s wrong at Microsoft so most of my questions are rhetorical. Although, I do suspect that Ballmer and the rest of the senior management team have no clue about the problems at Microsoft or, at the most extreme, that there are problems at Microsoft.
Ballmer definitely has no clue. Corporate management always loses touch when the money is easy and the times look good.
Yes MSFT’s returns have stunk (esp. compared to AAPL’s), but it’d be worth owning a couple shares just for the humor of raising hell at a shareholder’s meeting and see what kind of response MS could muster. IIRC owning even a single share gives one the right to stand up and air questions.
If you ever wondered what it would be like to be a witness to the demise of the Roman Empire, watch Microsoft over the next ten years – it’ll be a hoot.
IMO it’ll be like what happened in Detroit. Except it’ll take 5-10 years instead of 40.
After Rome fell we had that nasty little period of the Dark Ages. Maybe Apple could spare us all that and fast-forward right into the Renaissance?
“Are you Zune Tang”
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-thats the best
Mr. Ballmer,
With all of the resources that MS has to throw at every new, little and big, personal computing technology that comes out, why wouldn’t MS choose to spend all of it’s considerable resources on making as near-perfect on OS as has ever been developed – and before you give me the obvious answer, I mean really, why wouldn’t MS just make the ultimate operating system? MS does have the resources, don’t they?
Steve,
Do you use Apple as a roadmap to where your research and developement is taking Microsoft. You do, right?
When was the last time your company had an original thought.
If you were ever fired from Microsoft do you think Apple would hire you?