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Sad. My wife visited the office during a brief stint consulting for MS last year. She said the space was beautiful and the people and environment were vibrant a
by joebadmo 15y ago
Sad. My wife visited the office during a brief stint consulting for MS last year. She said the space was beautiful and the people and environment were vibrant and exciting.
It looked like a new hope for MS, a fresh division with new blood, and set apart from the corporate politicking, introducing new ideas like Courier and Kin[1]. Instead, it looks like the ultimate confirmation of how bad it really is there.
[1]: I think Kin was more a failure of marketing and market execution than of product design. It could've done fine as a low-end teen-targeted phone with a cheaper data plan, and maybe a bit more attention to the software.
- brudgers 15y agoI'd suggest that the contrast between Kin and Kinect shows why an ivory tower design studio was a poor fit for Microsoft culture. The failure was a study an in consumer market segmentation, the successful one is an effective hack.
- protomyth 15y agoI get the feeling that the XBox team really isn't part of Microsoft culture.