Microsoft's Worst Enemy: Themselves

KobyBoy writes "Saw this story posted on OSnews this morning. "Microsoft's biggest threat isn't Linux, OpenOffice, or any piece of software at all--its themselves. Over the last eighteen months two distinctly different Microsoft cultures have emerged, often in opposition to each other." You can get the full article at Sudhian Media."

Comments

I've seen this before

[Alethes]

This reminds me of another heavily fragmented software community.

Who is Linux's worst enemy?

Re:So open source isn't good enough...

[pod]

And to continue the great tradition of replying to my own posts...

It's not compelling enough.

...not even to people like me, who see what is going on.

Every couple of years when I get a new Linux mahine for my server, I buckle and install X with Gnome and KDE and all the doodads, only to spend an hour removing them a month later. And as flameworthy and downmodworthy as this is, I have to say, Linux desktops uniformly suck. For my purposes anyways. I love my Windows desktop. Period. Even with all its quirks. And say what you will, but clicking Start to shut down a computer is no less intuitive or inappropriate than clicking on a giant foot icon to do the same.

Gnome/KDE do absolutely nothing I expect a desktop to do for me. They do nothing in a way I expect a desktop to behave. I'm not exaggerating. There is nothing 'nice' I have to say about Gnome/KDE. The biggest obvious problem is the stupid Gnome/KDE/window manager 'multality' (as opposed to duality?). Just pick one and stick with it damnit. I know the popular view here is that is a 'good' thing, but to the 99% of us outside the 'community' it's just, well, retarded.

Which is why Windows will have to get much much worse before the likes of me start to switch to something else (not necessarily LInux either).