I guess that quite a few people at Redmond’s were extremely pissed when Apple’s iPad hit the road – while their product was technologically more advanced, it took an iPad to dake the world by storm.
Dick Brass, a former Microsoft VP, stated the following in a New York Times (anybody surprised by this?) op-ed:
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“The much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter,”
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Given that the New York Times has already distributed total crap about Microsoft in the past, Micriosoft’s response via PC World was less than a bored “meh”:
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“At the highest level, we think about innovation in relation to its ability to have a positive impact in the world. For Microsoft, it is not sufficient to simply have a good idea, or a great idea, or even a cool idea. We measure our work by its broad impact,” wrote Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of communications.
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Not much to add here…
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