Is it just me?

Or have things really taken a turn for the worst at Mini-Microsoft?

Behold - https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7555958&postID=7724554116624746518

But here's something interesting -

10 Sensible Things Microsoft Is Too Stupid To Do:




1. Move all online properties including Bing, Live, Skype and O365 into a separate company and float it, initially 100% MS owned. This entity owns its P&L and either sinks or swims.

2. Buy Nokia. Against iOS and with Google's MOTO purchase, not owning end-to-end HW and SW experience spells doom for WP 7.

3. Make E&D including Nokia a separate company and float it, initially 100% MS owned. Again, this entity owns its P&L and either sinks or swims.

4. Demote Ballmer to head of WW sales. Move Turner to the role he is best suited for, Chief Bureaucratic Officer, or better still fire his ass and get someone to run operations.

5. Hire a real CEO with similar deal Tim Cook got - 1/2 billion $ vesting over 10 years.

6. Terminate idiotic 'curve' BS. Hire a top-notch HR consultancy to fix the review system. Let LisaB spend more time with her family, and hire a real HR VP, not some 20 year product group hack.

7. Double dividend

8. Remove stock awards and pay market rates.

9. Remove current Board and get some people who actually can find their ass with ONE hand.

10. Completely review the software development practices, which currently are unable to create products customers want to buy.



Monday, August 29, 2011 9:06:00 AM



I would add one more key thing - hire some actual testers who spend their time you know, testing the software, instead of being coders who develop code to mimic testing the software.