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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Did they make products people didn't like? Erm... sure.
Also, there is no way to go back 10 years, plop a different CEO in place and see if MS does better. So, "would someone have done better" is 100% speculation.
BOb
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More precisely, they made some products *some* vocal people didn't like.
Microsoft customers are more interested in productivity than coolness or philosophical purity so they're less likely to be emotionally invested in the products or the company. That makes neither the product nor the company inferior to their competitors, merely quietly effective and slow to counter product libel.
Would a hype-master have been more effective in selling Microsoft products to the masses, maybe.
But corporate IT rarely buys into hype-fests; witness the limited success of Apple in the corporate world, even when they tried under Jobs.
Whatever the masses may think, Ballmer knows account control.