Scoble Bites The Hand That Fed Him

An anonymous reader writes "The Times Online points out a post that Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, put up on his site recently. In essence, Scoble has moved 180 degrees from his former blogging tone, saying that 'Microsoft Sucks'. More specifically, he is highly critical of Microsoft's online policy. In Scoble's words: 'Microsoft's Internet execution sucks (on whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks (look at that last post again). If that's in it to win then I don't get it. ... Microsoft isn't going away. Don't get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the Internet? Come on. This isn't winning. Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where's the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo's Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?) That's how you win.'"

Comments

And Ballmer's response?

[jkrise]

It appears you are angry and agitated. Here, take this chair!

Re:And Ballmer's response?

[armomurha]

Did you mean: Chairman Ballmer

Re:Who does microsoft execs listen to?

[adnonsense]

No doubt it was Microsoft who sponsored this particular piece of research.

Re:It's a trap!

[TapeCutter]

1. Ex-blogger says MSSucks(TM).

2. MS upgrades from "failing stragegy" to "doomed stragey II".

3. Ex-blogger says "doomed stragey II" has "put Google on notice".

4. Profit!!!

I'm not sure if it's completely obvious, after all - step three is normally expressed as "???".

Re:Dunno about trap

[pinky99]

Sure, you're completely right. No doubt. I just wanted to grab some "funny" karma points, but, as i got modded as insightful, this tactics clearly didn't work out...

Hah!

[ilovegeorgebush]

Well done Mr, you've just said what the rest of the IT industry has been saying for years!

Re:Its too late

[ixnaay]

Its nice to see that the 'hooked on phonics' kids are growing up and posting on slashdot

Re:It's a trap!

[marcello_dl]

In fact it happened something just like that with Paul Thurrott and WGA
Besides, is anybody gonna trust one guy whose name begins with "SCO" anymore? :)

Re:Dunno about trap

[blowdart]

Briefly, take your infos from less biased sources.

You're new to slashdot then?

You should write for Cobert

[HangingChad]

...business model spanks of a rigidity...

I'm not sure what that means, but I like it anyway. That's right up there with Cobert's "flaccid with anger". Can't wait to be in the middle of a really important high-level meeting and announce some part of the plan "spanks of rigidity."

They'll still be wondering what it means on the plane home. Adding that to my quote tiddler. ---->

Re:Are you implying something?

[Technician]

If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....

Are you implying somehow that Windows isn't broken?

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

About time

[MrCopilot]

You are coming to a sad realization.
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Re:Who does microsoft execs listen to?

[QRDeNameland]

I don't think those monkeys did nearly as bad as the article suggests. As the article notes:

But after a month, the [six] Sulawesi crested macaques had only succeeded in partially destroying the machine, using it as a lavatory, and mostly typing the letter "s".

The hypothesis is that a million monkeys typing randomly for a million years will eventually produce a work of Shakespeare. After one month with six monkeys, they produced no less than a first draft of "Snakes on a Plane."

Further research is clearly needed.

Re:I agree, just one comment to add

[Windowser]

You cannot find ANYTHING on their website, and its dirt slow. I remmeber one time I wanted to download media player 11, went to the site, and had to spend literally three minutes finding the download page.

You just have to know how to use the tool : http://www.google.com/search?q=download+media+play er+11
See ? first answer right there