Microsoft’s Creative Destruction →
Dick Brass, a former Microsoft VP, gives ab insider perspective on why we don’t get see the innovation that actually happens inside on this NYTimes Op-Ed, Microsoft’s Creative Destruction:
But the much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter.
I’m guilty of sometimes throwing rocks at Microsoft because of its products. However, I must say that the few employees I’ve met, where all super smart and geeky.