When I read the above Subtitle on a blog by Alfred Thompson I about fell out of my chair. Does this guy have even the slightest clue. If he is employed by Microsoft he needs to be fired because it is individuals like him that are hurting Microsoft.
They are getting beat across the board on so many levels by the likes of Google, and others that they really need to eliminate narrow minded thinking people like this guy.
To actually say that is beyond ridiculous, the actual title of the article was “Why blogging will kill the mainstream media” he wrote a great title that many others have used but did little to back up his subject.
This guy is obviously jealous of Robert and must have some bone to pick. After all Scoble is about as close to the Web 2.0 world as anyone in the business these days, to say otherwise is pure arrogance.
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Not hardly jealous of Robert and I have no bone to pick with him. And in fact the biggest mistake I made was in assuming that he would understand my points. I should have left his name out of the post because in a real way he is irrelevent to the points I was trying (not well it appears) to make. And now there is so much noise and so little listening that it is probably not even worth trying to clear things up. BTW if you really think I should be fired you have my email - send me a note and I'll send you my managers email.
Posted by Alfred Thompson | April 24, 2007 10:05 AM
Posted on April 24, 2007 10:05
To be quite honest, I think it's unfair to judge Microsoft based on the comments of this one employee and I think it's unfair that everyone jumps on Microsoft for the slightest mistake. They're not a perfect company - there's no such thing as a perfect company - but no one went all hell-bent on Google after their copyright infringement fiasco or stuck it to Take 2 after their ordeal with executive fraud.
My first point is that Microsoft has become the industry's punching bag - and in the wake of all the dust punching Microsoft has thrown up - everyone misses all of the little things that Microsoft is coming up with. If Microsoft didn't care about the future of the web, they wouldn't have bothered to incorporate AJAX into their IDEs. If Microsoft didn't care about the future of the web, they wouldn't have come up with Silverlight. If Microsoft didn't care about open-source, they wouldn't be funding open-source projects.
Yes, this man is a jerk. I'm a Microsoft "fanboy" and even I can see that this guy needs to be canned, but I still think it's unwise to judge an entire company and their efforts by one man alone. At the end of the day, after Google gets done toying around with their disjointed and inconsistent product line and Linux gets done trying to one up everyone else with another hundred million distribution versions, Microsoft has a proven, effective, and stable line of software that isn't going anywhere - just because it doesn't follow the trend immediately doesn't mean that it won't down the road - after all, Windows and OS are big products.
Posted by Jonathan Dewar | April 25, 2007 2:51 PM
Posted on April 25, 2007 14:51