____/ Mark Kent on Friday 25 January 2008 22:18 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Linonut on Thursday 24 January 2008 13:05 : \____
>>
>>> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> Raikes and Other Exits
>>>>
>>>> http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2008/01/raikes-and-other-exits.html
>>>
>>> The first comment in the list:
>>>
>>> As an ex-msft outsider, Raikes will definitely be missed. He was one
>>> of the few sanity points in the company.
>>>
>>> I had the opportunity to meet with a group of Microsoft PMs in the
>>> Vista group at CES this week and was amazed that the arrogant
>>> not-invented-here turf-protection smug 'we are Microsoft' attitude is
>>> still thick and in use. We were not even asking for anything, just
>>> providing information they needed (and actually asked for) and we
>>> still got a face full of 'we are already doing that' in spite of the
>>> fact that they really weren't.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Watch XBox360 here:
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft is close to zero. Low, flat curve... $billions in losses and
>>>> little hope on the horizon, unless you count on Microsoft's spin in Bill
>>>> Gates' 'mainstream' press.
>>>
>>> http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/01/23/japan_sales_1.png
>>>
>>> In Japan, XBox 180 is doing worse than the PS2.
>>
>> [Slashdot mode=on] In Korea, only old people use XBox360. Dead people play
>> Halo.
>>
>
> There is a surprising number of parallels between the iPhone's failure
> outside the US and the Xbox360s similarly poor performance outside the
> US. I'm also hearing rumours of iPhones having a significant range of
> problems around reliability, too.
Apple is excellent at polishing the /image/ of its fashion accessories
(overpriced objects), but there's tough competition out there. Apple's stock
sank recently.
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