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re: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have A Cult Religion?

mschaef — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 17:42:50 GMT

I can think of at least two reasons why Microsoft has 'lost its Zealots'. The first is that Microsoft is no longer the underdog and therefore has lost the 'underdog advantage'. That is, folks just tend to root more heavily for the underdog than they do the monopolist with the 90% market share.

The other issue is how Microsoft works with developers. The recent treatment of TestDriven.NET is a perfect example. It does not matter how many times your leadership jumps around the stage yelling 'Developers, Developers, Developers....' if you go around threatening legal action against third party contributors to your ecosystem. IBM had a similar problem with OS/2 until the mid-90's. IBM just did not get that folks writing drivers and software for OS/2 needed to be encouraged to invest in the platform. I don't know if they sued any developers, but they priced their SDK's so high they didn't have as many as they needed. IMO, threatening legal action is worse.

Apple has had similar problems with third party treatment of ISV's, but they have three things Microsoft does not: sex appeal, underdog status, and a userbase that's collectively made a deliberate choice not to accept the industry 'default'. They can get away with more.

re: On Branding, Vista and Blogging

Norah — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:29:59 GMT

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re: After a long break, an interesting quote

Carlos Lone — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:29:58 GMT

This is very deep. I liked it alot, also I surf over Guy Kawasaki website and i found very interesting entries. He's a very cool guy and I believe his writtings are inspiration to many of us.

re: For all of you VB fans out there: Don Box does VB9

Carlos Lone — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:27:42 GMT

Great News Jose !!!!

Hey Visual Studio Blog, your "Invalid Human Proof" Is Itself Invalid

TrackBack — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:50:00 GMT

A conondrum about agile development and Visual Studio In attempting to post a comment pointing them to my follow-up "come clean" post I have received several "Invalid Human Proof" errors when entering the so called Human Proof series of letters and numbers that should prove whether I am a human or a comment-spam bot. With 20/13 vision I somehow doubt...

TrackBack — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 22:43:00 GMT

A conondrum about agile development and Visual Studio I need to re-read this article several times. So far I think I do not agree entirely on these views, take a look at it and judge by yourself...

re: Visual Studio 2005 Scheduled to Launch November 7 2005

jose — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:21:00 GMT

We can't wait! My company, Digipede Technologies, will be there (kiosk NC-12) showing Grid Object Oriented Programming running on .NET 2.0 in VS 2005 (with a SQL Server 2005 back end, to boot)!

re: Free Sessions from PDC 2005

jose — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:32:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/10/06/477974.aspx

re:Visual Studio 2005 Scheduled to Launch November 7 2005

TrackBack — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 03:35:00 GMT

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