Other Mini-Like Sites and The Broken Windows Theory – Links
Some of the Mini-Microsoft-like sites I’ve noticed recently (are there more)?
MSFTextrememakeover at http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/ – posts so far:
- MSFTextrememakeover Ballmer presents his case in Manhattan – and bombs
- MSFTextrememakeover Another day, another potential legal problem – this time Adobe
- MSFTextrememakeover Scoring MSFT against its own self-selected peers
- MSFTextrememakeover Update – Another day, another potential legal problem – this time Adobe
Mini-Microsoft France at http://mini-microsoft-fr.blogspot.com/ – posts so far (hmm, I could have swore there were two posts…):
Nothing really new from what was looking like an encouraging blog a while back: Next Microsoft.
Other interesting links:
- Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – There Goes the Down Payment on My First House – pictures are worth a thousand words, or in this case: billions upon billions of shareholder dollars.
- Microsoft Monitor Microsoft Blogs – Joe Wilcox musing over Microsoft blogging in the upcoming post-Scoble era. It’s interesting that Mr. Wilcox has flipped the bit on Brian Jones’ blog from personal technology blog to controlled corporate mouth-piece.
- Plugged in A kinder, gentler Microsoft – Financial News – Yahoo! Finance – “I have a confession to make: I like the new Microsoft.” this is where I have to give leadership credit for not getting in the way as individuals and groups take the initiative to rebuild positive relationships with doubtful developers, spurned partners, and leery customers.
- Windows Vista Buggy, Testers Say – Financial News – Yahoo! Finance – so many issues, so little time. Personally, I’m resigned to Vista slipping again and invigorated leaders pontificating that it’s okay to slip because we won’t ship sh*t. You know, about two years ago that reasoning held. Everything today is a clustered-coupling and the senior leadership hiding behind that reasoning are the ones that need to take their SPSA grant and scoot out the exit.
- Broken Windows Theory by philipsu – reposted back on MSDN. Just to be clear: it was down for editing, not due to pressure from The Man, according to the author. Thanks for letting me know.
- Old now: Broken Windows Theory philipsu – Google Search – from here you can look into the Google cache and find the yanked essay about Vista and the culture around its woes. Very nicely written and now 404 from The World As Best As I Remember It. You can also read it if you add the blog’s feed to your BlogLines subscription. Philip, perhaps you and Dare can talk about dealing with internal grief for your blog posts.
My favorite snippet from that last one:
When a vice president in Windows asks you whether your team will ship on time, they might well have asked you whether they look fat in their new Armani suit. The answer to the question is deeply meaningful to them. It’s certainly true in some sense that they genuinely want to know. But in a very important other sense, in a sense that you’ll come to regret night after night if you get it wrong, there’s really only one answer you can give.
(Updated: the post Broken Windows Theory is back.)
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