For anyone that had doubts about Microsoft's "Best decade" being behind them, here is a blunt quote from CEO Steve Ballmer:
“If there’s one thing I guess you would say I regret, I regret that there was a period in the early 2000s when we were so focused on what we had to do around Windows that we weren’t able to redeploy talent to the new device called the phone. That is the thing I regret the most. The time we missed is the time we were working on what became [Windows] Vista and I wish we had resources slightly differently [deployed]. It would have been better for Windows.”
Best part: we didn't work on a phone because we were too busy developing Vista.
#fail
I can't help but think that if these resources were to be deployed towards working on a new phone at that time, they would have just ended up with a phone that had Vista as an OS.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think Ballmer is missing the bigger picture. Microsoft has been consistently late to the party not because they missed the boat on smart phones, but because their culture has actively discouraged innovation. A company with 100,000 employees should be able to handle walking and chewing gum at the same time (mobile and desktop OS).
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