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• buggia - Jun 28 2008 | microsoft

  Great article on Bill's departure.

  Quoted: I've been wondering for years what is it exactly about Microsoft's culture that prevents their best and brightest technical people from releasing great products as ...

  • mohit - Jun 28 2008
    

    Great article. I especially liked this paragraph:

    Quoted: ...Starting any business that is perceived as having less than $1 billion in sales ought to make no sense at all for Microsoft unless NOT starting such a business might lead to the company's failure. That's certainly the case with MSN, for example, which is too small for Microsoft to bother with yet too important for Microsoft NOT to bother with. The only logical move for Microsoft, then, was to make the MSN business big enough to matter and the only way they could see to do that was by acquiring Yahoo, which explains this year's failed acquisition. Microsoft's failure to buy Yahoo doesn't change this scenario, either, so look for Microsoft to do something -- anything -- to grow that business, because they can't strategically afford to do the logical thing, which is to kill it.
• moishe - Jun 27 2008 | blogs

  Quoted: This is the last week of full-time work at Microsoft for Bill Gates and given that I have written more than 40 columns about Microsoft over the years, it wouldn't make much sense for me to ignore this event. Yet that is almost what I did, which I believe is telling. It frankly didn't matter much to me that Bill was retiring. But then I figured longtime