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Have you been to a Microsoft Store? The employees usually outnumber the customers. Because it's not just developers they've lost, it's consumers. Microsoft are

Have you been to a Microsoft Store? The employees usually outnumber the customers. Because it's not just developers they've lost, it's consumers. Microsoft are great at enterprise, but their consumer ambitions are going to be hard to realise.

LLWM 12y ago
Consumers are overrated. Do you really think Sysco is going to go under because the average guy on the street doesn't know or care about them?
- dlp211 12y ago
  Not sure if you actually mean Sysco [1] or Cisco [2]. Your analogy actually works for both, but this being a tech site I assume you mean the latter. [1] http://www.sysco.com/ http://www.sysco.com/ [2] http://www.cisco.com/ http://www.cisco.com/
  - LLWM 12y ago
    I wrote the former, didn't I?
wdewind 12y ago
This is exactly what I'm complaining about. Completely anecdotal measures of stuff that truly doesn't matter, while ignoring actual data that shows the company being wildly successful.