On having moved on from Microsoft
Dare sums it up pretty well in his entry, "On Moving On From Microsoft in 5 Years ":
...I don't think the Microsoft culture and the direction from its executive leadership lends itself to building great consumer-centric software... Of course, it's not only customers that get the short end of the stick. Employees also have the consequences of this kind of thinking to deal with as well. The primary way this manifests itself is integrated innovation, a buzzword that translates to more dependencies among shipping products, less control of one's product destiny and longer ship cycles. A lot of the frustration you see in the comments in places like the Mini-Microsoft blog are a direct consequence of this focus by our executive leadership."
I don't miss Microsoft. A few years ago I never thought I'd say something like that, and it makes me a little sad.
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