Comments on: Microsoft: not that evil, after all. http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mario http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-4223 Mario Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:48:35 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/#comment-4223 Didn't I say a while ago "Never Say Never" Fred if MS was discussed? So you see if things come closer, even maybe with age ;-) things becomes so relative. Glad you made your way finally into the MS Catacombes. I wonder what the idea was behind your visit, maybe that what started it all? Mario Bali Didn’t I say a while ago “Never Say Never” Fred if MS was discussed? So you see if things come closer, even maybe with age ;-) things becomes so relative. Glad you made your way finally into the MS Catacombes. I wonder what the idea was behind your visit, maybe that what started it all?

Mario Bali

]]> By: SeanMcb.com » IE7 Beta 2 is Out! http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1342 SeanMcb.com » IE7 Beta 2 is Out! Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:30:02 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/#comment-1342 [...] I appreciated Fred’s post at WeBreakStuff about his recent visit to Microsoft. He claims that they’re not as evil as they seem, and that, large as the company is, there are people inside it working to move it in the right directions. Good. As Ben Parker once said in a movie, “With great power comes great responsibility.” [...] [...] I appreciated Fred’s post at WeBreakStuff about his recent visit to Microsoft. He claims that they’re not as evil as they seem, and that, large as the company is, there are people inside it working to move it in the right directions. Good. As Ben Parker once said in a movie, “With great power comes great responsibility.” [...]

]]> By: Terry Wray http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1340 Terry Wray Tue, 31 Jan 2006 22:20:57 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/#comment-1340 Your sentence, "Their employees sure have the skills and the right mindset, so, there’s virtually nothing stopping them.", reminded me of very recent blog entry from "Creating Passionate Users" (Kathy Sierra) called "Death by risk-aversion" She states that management may stifle the creative worker-bees because, well, change is scary. What if they let the developers make "X", but the market for "X" was only 1000 users. "X" may be a great product, but the market has to be there. Now, take "X" and add "Y" & "Z", then homogenize some of the features of "X" and you've got a 1,000,000 user market. The original 1000 users will call it "almost useful" and "homogenized". Which it is. But it sells. Companies make money. Organizations help people. Microsoft is a Company. Your sentence, “Their employees sure have the skills and the right mindset, so, there’s virtually nothing stopping them.”, reminded me of very recent blog entry from “Creating Passionate Users” (Kathy Sierra) called “Death by risk-aversion”

She states that management may stifle the creative worker-bees because, well, change is scary. What if they let the developers make “X”, but the market for “X” was only 1000 users. “X” may be a great product, but the market has to be there. Now, take “X” and add “Y” & “Z”, then homogenize some of the features of “X” and you’ve got a 1,000,000 user market. The original 1000 users will call it “almost useful” and “homogenized”. Which it is. But it sells. Companies make money. Organizations help people. Microsoft is a Company.

]]> By: Geof Harries http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/comment-page-1/#comment-1335 Geof Harries Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:56:31 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/01/microsoft-not-that-evil-after-all/#comment-1335 Too bad Microsoft spends so much needless money on <a href="http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/can_120000000_buy_you_small.php" rel="nofollow">ineffective marketing</a> when it could really just benefit from cheaper grassroots, developer-friendly networking and communications instead. It would do wonders for their reputation if these human voices could be heard instead of just the marketing hype and pimpin' we're always hit with. Too bad Microsoft spends so much needless money on ineffective marketing when it could really just benefit from cheaper grassroots, developer-friendly networking and communications instead. It would do wonders for their reputation if these human voices could be heard instead of just the marketing hype and pimpin’ we’re always hit with.

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