Re: At least I'm not the only one ...

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Did I miss a memo? Why is everone posting links to an
article about a 5 year old e-mail?

I just don't get it.....


I guess you could start by Googling "sense of humor".
Why are you being such a stickler?

It was interesting to me on two counts. One is just
the irony and comic relief. Mr. Gates goes through a
long list of some of the most famous complaints about
MS and Windows. They're the things that drive people
crazy, and here's Bill Gates complaining about them.
That's from a company that typically explains away
even distasteful things like WGA and Product Activation
by saying that they're "providing what their customers
have asked for".

It's also interesting to me as someone who uses Windows,
writes for Windows, and is frustrated with the direction
that MS has taken over the past few years. Imagine that
you bought a lemon of some kind and then saw that *the
president of the company* had the same complaints that
you have! You wouldn't even need a sense of humor
to find that at least interesting.

I read somewhere recently that MS is divided between the
geeks and the salesmen, and that outcomes often depend on
who has the upper hand. I don't know whether that's true,
but the memo makes me think about that quote. Whenever
I've seen quotes or footage of Bill Gates he sounds like a
used car salesman -- always an angle. But he's generally,
at least, talking about tech. product. Steve Ballmer is now
taking over, presumably, and whenever I see quotes from him
it's about business strategy. Now here is Bill Gates, in a
mysteriously "leaked" memo, complaining that Windows is
out of touch with end-user needs. Interesting developments, no?


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