Blogging Ottinger (tim)Citizen Microsoft, Oct 2004.
In the Citizen Microsoft article, published October 2004, we see that a rising tide does not lift all boats. This came up in a conversation this morning, and I thought maybe it was worth rehashing again. It was interesting then, it’s interesting still.
I think that the company has been making a kind of turn around partly because of changes in personnel and partly because Bill Gates got married, had a child, has had to get out of the office more. I know that they’ve hired (and sometimes fired) better people in more recent years, and actaully have ECMA standards for C#. I would like to think that the Microsoft of the future will have different tactics than the M$ of the past.
I keep hoping and looking for signs.
