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Posted by Robert B. at 3/16/07 10:57 p.m.

It's probably not as insane as he thinks it is.

On another subject entirely -

Monica, is the P-I thinking of firming things up a bit in its infosphere, past the current slew of your (our) casual comment threads that flare and die?

Andr for that matter, many very good articles from a few months ago have now died except in the memory of occasional scattered readers. Watching the passing scene parade by is a hoot, but there's more to life than observing the passing scene.

Not for this subject in particular, but about a few other things, I'd like to be able to post notes to a P-I wiki if there were one, and not just to passing threads that will get buried in a few days.

Maybe this goes against the grain, or the purpose or the official 24-hour attention span of a newspaper, but there really is a lot of amazing stuff in the archives of the P-I that bears on current issues and public discussions, and that is very hard to access.

Dokuwiki looks good for personal use and I think I'll install it with a few add-ons and changes, for myself. But it might be too lightweight for something larger. Not sure yet.

Any thoughts?

Posted by unregistered user at 3/17/07 7:44 a.m.

This is the same CEO who has famously said that he doesn't watch the stock price. Where is the investor outrage? Investor outrage over a company whose stock is stagnant, whose flagship products are perpetually late, whose CEO says that enthusiasm for its flagship product is "overly aggressive", whose best and brightest employees are leaving in droves while a doddering, antiquated executive cabal of "good ol' boys" remains behind.

Microsoft is no longer an industry leader. It has become what it feared it would become: a relic, challenged by an upstart group of "guys in a garage".

Serious changes are required at Microsoft if investors are to see any reasonable return. Changes that must start at the top with a CEO that respects the stock's performance.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/17/07 5:32 p.m.

I recently left Microsoft. I was recruited about 4 years ago from silicon valley. Microsoft, starting with Ballmer (umm, where is the BOD for this company?) is afraid of people who don't think the way they do. Rather than embracing the exciting advances in technology and the business models they enable, Microsoft has management that really can't understand what's going on. Why? Look at the bios of the top 50 execs. If they haven't worked there since their first day out of college, they've been there since 88 or 89. That company is a afraid of fresh perspectives and it will be their downfall.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/18/07 9:07 a.m.

This sucks.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/18/07 9:52 p.m.

I have a hard time understanding how Microsoft has lasted this long.

Posted by unregistered user at 3/28/07 9:44 p.m.

As a new graduate, I just interviewed with Microsoft and all they care about is what codes I can write, and what applications I know...they didn't seem to want to know me as a person, so what does that tell you?