Come on now.
> products that bring intense pain to it users
I'm a Mac user and I love Office (over OO and iWork).
> as frustrated as anyone else about the problem
It's not "a" problem. It's a large organization with tons of products, and some are more sucky then the rest.
> is completely powerless to stop it
He wasn't the CEO anymore when he wrote this. Also, even if he were the CEO, he can't go in and fix every annoyance himself. He's a leader, he needs people underneath him to do a good job. When they're not, he needs to remind them, that's what this email is.
> is drowning in money coming from his mistakes
If it weren't for Bill Gates, we might not be having this conversation...
> Microsoft has been a slow-motion train wreck for 15 years
Have you looked at Win7? It's pretty good. C# 4.0 is much better than Java. Visual Studio kills anything else on the IDE market. Xbox rocks. A friend just got a Win7 phone, and the UI/UX seems to work very well, better than Android, about as good as iOS.
> products that bring intense pain to it users
I'm a Mac user and I love Office (over OO and iWork).
> as frustrated as anyone else about the problem
It's not "a" problem. It's a large organization with tons of products, and some are more sucky then the rest.
> is completely powerless to stop it
He wasn't the CEO anymore when he wrote this. Also, even if he were the CEO, he can't go in and fix every annoyance himself. He's a leader, he needs people underneath him to do a good job. When they're not, he needs to remind them, that's what this email is.
> is drowning in money coming from his mistakes
If it weren't for Bill Gates, we might not be having this conversation...
> Microsoft has been a slow-motion train wreck for 15 years
Have you looked at Win7? It's pretty good. C# 4.0 is much better than Java. Visual Studio kills anything else on the IDE market. Xbox rocks. A friend just got a Win7 phone, and the UI/UX seems to work very well, better than Android, about as good as iOS.