Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant
<p>Jul 08, 2012 12:01 PM
 
sent by Steve O.  see discussion in syz under Microsoft's Downfall
 
author Kurt Eichenwald
 
STACK RANKING:  rank employees in every unit.
 
every employee cited it as the most destructive process at MSFT.
 
emply compete with one another rather than against other companies.
 
" my need to improve my visibility with the managers"
 
years ahead with Windows Phone  and blew it!!!
 
blew it cuz of bureaucracy!!!
 
they had an e-reader in 1998... Gates gave it a thums down!!!!  didn't look like MSFT.
 
'how are we going to use this to make money!!"
 
loyalty to Windows and Office...  kept them from jumping on new tech...
 
a few people in the Win/Office division killed the project.
 
AOL AIM...  MSN Messenger...  older man didn't get it...  (a twitter like capability)
 
MSFT is technology's answer to Sears.
 
they used to point their finger at IBM and laugh... now they are the thing they despised.
 
 
 
 
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