J vs Jobs
At 3:32 p.m. on Oct. 19 an e-mail flashed across the screens of the 230 Microsoft employees working slavishly to bring the Zune music player to market. The sender was their brash team leader, J Allard, 37. The message included a link to an old video of Steve Jobs on YouTube, mocking Microsoft's creativity. "The only problem with Microsoft is that they have no taste," the Apple Computer boss says. "They have absolutely no taste."
Allard was using one of the oldest motivational tricks in the book--his version of a football coach posting an opponent's quote on the locker room wall. "I for one...want to see this guy eat his words," Allard wrote. "Those are fighting words. He is speaking to every one of us and saying that we don't get it."
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This is the Microsoft I love. Also the Microsoft we don't see enough of.
Aggressive. And with attitude.
Allard was using one of the oldest motivational tricks in the book--his version of a football coach posting an opponent's quote on the locker room wall. "I for one...want to see this guy eat his words," Allard wrote. "Those are fighting words. He is speaking to every one of us and saying that we don't get it."
See the entire article here.
This is the Microsoft I love. Also the Microsoft we don't see enough of.
Aggressive. And with attitude.
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Well, CNN for one thinks they've turned out a Zune with no taste. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1y8-hDK8E
Along with CNN, Leo Laporte and others on a C|Net podcast have a similar opinion.
Here's the clip of Steve Jobs.
(excerpt: "...they have no taste... what that means is that they don't think of original ideas...)
The clip is from 1996 and still seems relevant, although MS does have a habit of sticking with an initial loser product and eventually making it a winner through marketing, vendor "negotiations", pricing, and/or real improvements. Windows v1.0, IE, DirectX, and even MS Word are all examples.
Here's the clip of Steve Jobs.
(excerpt: "...they have no taste... what that means is that they don't think of original ideas...)
The clip is from 1996 and still seems relevant, although MS does have a habit of sticking with an initial loser product and eventually making it a winner through marketing, vendor "negotiations", pricing, and/or real improvements. Windows v1.0, IE, DirectX, and even MS Word are all examples.
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