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This. Microsoft has always executed its fully-baked plans very well, and credit should go where it's due there. The problem is with a lack of a fully-baked ov
by bunderbunder 14y ago
This. Microsoft has always executed its fully-baked plans very well, and credit should go where it's due there.
The problem is with a lack of a fully-baked overall vision. And the problem is even more so with the combination of undignified heel-nipping and desperate clinging to a zombie vision from the 1990s (most recently re-branded as "Windows Everywhere") that is being allowed to serve as a substitute for a real vision.
- laconian 14y agoMore fundamental than that: I think the issue is poor performance management and the well-connected tenured employees that can't break free from decades-old paradigms.