On: Microsoft, the end of evolution?

[bad_user]

Somehow I'm picturing Bill Gates / Steve Ballmer saying "we've got to be more like IBM..."

[rbanffy → bad_user]

To be fair, IBM trying to be more like Apple (among other microcomputer makers) resulted in Microsoft ;-)

[keithba → bad_user]

Funny you say that - in the seven+ years I worked there I heard (serious, not ironic) versions of this phrasing _many_ times from various senior managers and execs, especially as related to IBM's consulting business.