Comments on: MSFT Product Marketing Fail http://www.tomloverro.com/2009/06/03/msft-product-marketing-fail/ The irreverent technology & entrepreneurship blog of Tom Loverro Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: tloverro http://www.tomloverro.com/2009/06/03/msft-product-marketing-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-6 tloverro Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:08:39 +0000 http://tomloverro.com/?p=139#comment-6 Interesting. Yeah, funny I had Windows ME too. I wanted to like it so badly but eventually I had to uninstall it in favor of Win2k. I've been kicking around an idea for a blog post about what I would do improve MSFT. There are parts of it I LOVE (office) and parts I hate (WinMo)...when I have the time I think this will become its own post. What parts of MSFT I would keep/feed and what parts I would cut off and cast away. Interesting. Yeah, funny I had Windows ME too. I wanted to like it so badly but eventually I had to uninstall it in favor of Win2k.

I’ve been kicking around an idea for a blog post about what I would do improve MSFT. There are parts of it I LOVE (office) and parts I hate (WinMo)…when I have the time I think this will become its own post. What parts of MSFT I would keep/feed and what parts I would cut off and cast away.

]]> By: joe Y perro http://www.tomloverro.com/2009/06/03/msft-product-marketing-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-5 joe Y perro Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:03:55 +0000 http://tomloverro.com/?p=139#comment-5 I agree, Tom. MSFT has no f---ing clue. I proudly owned their stock in the '90s. You know, when they had competition, i.e. people they could steal ideas from and "innovate" by complexifying it and adding it to their releases. Along the way I noticed something interesting. Their software had lots of features that were never presented or explained. DOH! . As a shareholder this was gut wrenching. The company was investing $$$s in new features and unable to get them noticed and realize a premium. IOW, too many product managers looking busy adding features to products that no one ever used. I bought one of my employees in a different state a new Dell box with MSFT's "Millenium ME". A total dung heap of an operating system. Full of bugs and GUI eye candy, rushed out 'cause they needed a new OS release. Today you would call that mistake "jumping the shark". Though I didn't know that term then, it was clear Gates & Co had transitioned from competing against other companies, to sitting on their butts and using their monopoly position to sell crap like Milleium Me because they wanted a new OS upgrade cycle. I bailed by 2000, selling every share I owned of MSFT by Summer. I continued to own Dell and actually liked their notebooks running XP Pro. I played with a Vista beta release. It was Millenium Me deja vu -- another piece of shit full of bugs that MSFT was pushing into the market because they believed they needed revenues from another OS upgrade cycle. I didn't care. I had sold MSFT, and bought a MacBook after a 12 yr. absence. I agree, Tom. MSFT has no f—ing clue. I proudly owned their stock in the ’90s. You know, when they had competition, i.e. people they could steal ideas from and “innovate” by complexifying it and adding it to their releases. Along the way I noticed something interesting. Their software had lots of features that were never presented or explained. DOH! . As a shareholder this was gut wrenching. The company was investing $$$s in new features and unable to get them noticed and realize a premium. IOW, too many product managers looking busy adding features to products that no one ever used.

I bought one of my employees in a different state a new Dell box with MSFT’s “Millenium ME”. A total dung heap of an operating system. Full of bugs and GUI eye candy, rushed out ’cause they needed a new OS release.

Today you would call that mistake “jumping the shark”. Though I didn’t know that term then, it was clear Gates & Co had transitioned from competing against other companies, to sitting on their butts and using their monopoly position to sell crap like Milleium Me because they wanted a new OS upgrade cycle.

I bailed by 2000, selling every share I owned of MSFT by Summer.

I continued to own Dell and actually liked their notebooks running XP Pro. I played with a Vista beta release. It was Millenium Me deja vu — another piece of shit full of bugs that MSFT was pushing into the market because they believed they needed revenues from another OS upgrade cycle.

I didn’t care. I had sold MSFT, and bought a MacBook after a 12 yr. absence.

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