Microsoft’s Creative Destruction
Just noticed and interesting op-ed piece in the NyTimes by an ex-MSFTee entitled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction“. A good read which points out how hard it was to compete against the cash cows of Office and Windows within Microsoft.
And yet it is failing, even as it reports record earnings. As the fellow who tried (and largely failed) to make tablet PCs and e-books happen at Microsoft a decade ago, I could say this is because the company placed too much faith in people like me. But the decline is so broad and so striking that it would be presumptuous of me to take responsibility for it.
Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator. Its products are lampooned, often unfairly but sometimes with good reason. Its image has never recovered from the antitrust prosecution of the 1990s
Truly chilling to innovation.
Mike
