Comments on: Microsoft Mouth for Hire Forrester Research Becomes Even More Discreet http://techrights.org/2010/02/12/fraudster-research/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/12/fraudster-research/comment-page-1/#comment-81710 Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:14:31 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26776#comment-81710 And blue screens of death were a huge problem at the time.

]]> By: Mikko http://techrights.org/2010/02/12/fraudster-research/comment-page-1/#comment-81642 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 23:26:33 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26776#comment-81642 Windows95 = IRQ Errors

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2010/02/12/fraudster-research/comment-page-1/#comment-81603 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:32:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26776#comment-81603 Yes, I did find it important to point out that Microsoft had paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars. You don’t bite the hand/breast that fed you.

Many ex-Sofies are deluded.

“People everywhere love Windows.”

–Bill Gates

]]> By: NotZed http://techrights.org/2010/02/12/fraudster-research/comment-page-1/#comment-81596 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:15:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=26776#comment-81596 Replied to Scott Berkun’s post:

“Windows 95, Office 95, Internet Explorer 5.0, MS Natural Keyboard, XBOX 360 were all excellent products by most standards,”

You’re not serious are you? Xbox 360 has probably been the most unreliable piece of consumer electronics released in history.

Windows 95 was all hype and no substance. It was a terrible product that grabbed the market attention but never actually delivered.

And the MS natural keyboard is somewhat subjective. I’m sure if I had a stomach so big I couldn’t get my arms around it it might feel ‘natural’ but otherwise it feels anything but.

Office 95 was also a terrible product, and they’ve only gone down-hill since.

“The premise: The core point of the Brass article is how the introduction of middle management and bureaucracy has killed innovation at Microsoft.”

Well that’s just bogus too. Let’s be frank. Microsoft was born out of the suppression of innovation. And that’s been their business model ever since. Can’t compete? Buy out the competitor and sink their product. Damn the customers. Rinse. Repeat.

Get your blinkers off and have an unconstrained look at the company you used to work for, and you might see things very differently.

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