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It doesn't matter if the talent exists.... Corporate Culture will overrule it. | 474 comments | Create New Account
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Downfall article in Vanity Fair shows why...
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 04:11 PM EDT
You have, at the top, Bill Gates...a man who will cheat his close
associates....sooner or later, those chickens come home to roost. Why do you
suppose I'm still running Windoze XP at work?

If I had talent, would I want to work for him? Especially in a system of fixed
tier ratings? Google has to be SUCH a nicer place to work!



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It doesn't matter if the talent exists.... Corporate Culture will overrule it.
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 08:34 PM EDT

The problem isn't so much in the lack of talent I don't think. Consider the misplaced hope in certain FLOSS members who went to work for Microsoft to discover that was a waste of their time.

The biggest problem - one that over-rides tons of talent - is the Corporate Culture.

The Culture that wants the talent to work on improved vendor and customer lockin. The Culture that wants to have the Law changed to make a computer that is sold without Microsoft Windows actually criminal.

Anyone that has talent that proceeds against the wishes of the Corporate Culture doesn't last long.... "irreconcilable differences". As a result, the bulk of the focus is on what Microsoft believes is best to maintain their Monopoly rather than on producing products and services people actually want. The user specifications aren't coming from the software developers... other vendors.... or even the customers themselves. The user specifications Microsoft focuses on are developed internally by management.

Even after Governments the world over told Microsoft that they wanted open source data formats because no one should be blocked from accessing public information, or be forced to use a particular vendors product in order to get to that information:

    Microsoft produced OOXML!
OOXML: little more then an XML wrapper around Microsoft's binary format.

They're just not listening to their customers and it doesn't seem they have any intent to do so any time soon. I guess they are just to used to a decade where they actually controlled everything and could dictate their will - just don't want to let that go even though it really is gone.

RAS

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