Monday, October 12, 2009

It's time to stick a fork in Microsoft

I started to write a post about cloud computing:
I just don't trust the Cloud and I bet Sidekick customers no longer trust it either. I want to make my own backups, thanks. I am comfortable with non-critical stuff, like using Gmail as a convenient dump for years of e-mail. But I don't have enough faith in the Cloud to, say, trust Flickr with my only set of pictures.
Then I read more and found out that the T-Mobile/Sidekick/Danger/Microsoft fiasco can't be chalked up to cloud computing, but to the astounding fact that MICROSOFT DIDN'T BACK UP THE DATA. Ballmer needs to go pronto and the entire org structure needs to be rebuilt. Tie this in with the fact that Windows Mobile 6.5 is a turd and there's a recipe for shareholder revolt. Microsoft will soon be Seattle's GM once the cash bleed starts.

5 comments:

Lou Minatti said...

What kind of corporate culture allows this to occur? They should have multiple redundant backups around the world, and they didn't even have ONE BACKUP?

edwin sanchez said...

I never liked the Sidekick anyway, I was always a Blackberry owner...very faithful...like the rest of the world.

Chris Brown said...

I think that they did a great job at first but now they really need to get it together.

Wally said...

I used to like Microsoft. But they have become an anklyosaurus. Big, slow moving, thick hide, and dangerous if you get too near their tail.
But they seriously need to evolve.

I like OneNote, and I use it almost all the time. So I wonder how Microsoft got it made. I just can't recall another Microsoft program that has exited me in ages.

I agree about WM 6.5. It's appalling.

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