The software business is messy. It always has been messy, but lately it's much messier. This might be a good thing for progress, or it might not. It's also murky, right now it's very hard to see which way to go on something, it's almost as if there are too many choices and none of them jump out off the screen at you. Are Microsoft now in a permanently defensive mode? Keeping its nose clean after all that unpleasantness 2-3 years back. It seems like they might be and perhaps this is the root of the problem.
I'll be spending a few days at their HQ in Redmond this week, in one respect it'll be like a geek fantasy, in others it'll be very interesting to find out what exactly they're up to behind those castle walls. And if they actually know themselves. And if they realise just how priviledged they are to have me walking among them for a short while. Ahem.
Planning to hook up with the still-almost-fresh MS inductee, Robert Scoble, for some eats while I'm there. That sounds like it might be fun.
PLUS, whilst I'm over in the states, I'm planning to tell everyone I meet that I know Halley Suitt, just watch her street-cred & stock plummet as a result of that nasty strategy.
I'll be spending a few days at their HQ in Redmond this week, in one respect it'll be like a geek fantasy, in others it'll be very interesting to find out what exactly they're up to behind those castle walls. And if they actually know themselves. And if they realise just how priviledged they are to have me walking among them for a short while. Ahem.
Planning to hook up with the still-almost-fresh MS inductee, Robert Scoble, for some eats while I'm there. That sounds like it might be fun.
PLUS, whilst I'm over in the states, I'm planning to tell everyone I meet that I know Halley Suitt, just watch her street-cred & stock plummet as a result of that nasty strategy.