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50 years of market swings (cnn.com)
4 points by gongfudoi on Feb 25, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Rebranding MSFT is like puting lipstick on a pig. It stil wont change the fact it is a pig.

MSFT is overan by bozos, and it will keep staying like that unless they fire half of the people there. I don't know great developers that want to work for microsoft. I have met several people that used to work there, and for some reason I have never got along or particulary liked them. There was something that made me not tick with them. It is very wierd, but they some kind sense of sutle arrogance and "empty" pride. It is like people that think way too highly of themselves, without showing the real results.

Maybe some people try to attach to big companies so they can feel more important or part of the success, even if they don't really contribute much (there are merely a simple cog, in a thousands of engineers machine).

Maybe that's why MSFT is failing to do anything impactful on the web space.


Maybe that's it, or maybe they have two of the most profitable products in the history of the world (Office, Windows), and things like that are hard to come be. Heck, Google only has one and Facebook has none.




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