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Microsoft's problem is sycophants. There are enough people telling them how great their products are, that when those same products don't do well, Microsoft loo
by latch 15y ago
Microsoft's problem is sycophants. There are enough people telling them how great their products are, that when those same products don't do well, Microsoft looks outwardly for the problem.
Windows Phone must be great, a lot of reviewers said so. Poor sales? Perception and marketing! (Forget lack of leadership, vision and innovation)
Azure is shunned? That's because people misunderstand it. Nothing to do with being slow out the gate, falling farther behind with each new AWS product, and not having any price advantage (in some cases, it's far worse).
Bing losing money? That's just not fair, our results are as good as google. (NO THEY ARE NOT).
These sycophants are both internal to the company and external.
The sooner Microsoft realizes that it's failing to succeed in new markets because it's average-at-best, the better for them. As long as they keep believing that their failing products are great and thus the failure is [largely] outside of their control, nothing will change.
- cooldeal 15y ago>Windows Phone must be great, a lot of reviewers said so. Poor sales? Perception and marketing! (Forget lack of leadership, vision and innovation) There is no reason for both of them to be problems. You mean like how when you go looking for Windows Phone the salesman almost always pushes you hard towards other phones? There are too many instances of this to ignore. Meanwhile, in multiple third party independent surveys, Windows Phone continues to do well: http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-phone-tops-in-user-satisfaction http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-phone-tops-in-user-satisf... http://socialtimes.com/windows-phone-bests-android-in-user-satisfaction-according-to-changewave_b70939 http://socialtimes.com/windows-phone-bests-android-in-user-s... http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/28/revealing-user-survey-proves-windows-phone-a-worthy-adversary-for-iphone-if-only-it-had-the-apps/ http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03/28/revealing-user-survey... For years we have heard the talk-ers proclaim how the .NET stack doesn't scale is too expensive for a startup. Meanwhile the do-ers built Stackoverflow and it has none of the scaling problems that sites built on other tools like Reddit have. The perception problem is real and for you to totally ignore it shows your own biases.
- latch 15y agoWindows Phone isn't selling because it came out 4 years after the iPhone. It's an absolutely failure at the leadership level. They ridiculed the iPhone when it came out. What's the leadership going to say "We really dropped the ball on this one"? Ya right...blame anyone else. I'm not arguing that Windows Phone isn't better (nor am I arguing that it is). I'm arguing that the reason it isn't selling is 100% internal to Microsoft and isn't merely a marketing and perception problem.
- recoiledsnake 15y agoYou're talking about public statements. Of course, any company ridicules competitors' strategies. Where are statments from Apple heaping praise on the Kinect?
- jinushaun 15y agoAzure competes with AppEngine and Heroku, not AWS and Rackspace.