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What Microsoft Must Do To Save Its Mobile Business

Posted by kdawson on from the take-two-cyanide-pills-and-call-me-in-the-morning dept.

GMGruman writes "Microsoft has tossed out its mobile management team (without admitting to doing so), but is that enough to make Microsoft matter in mobile? InfoWorld's Galen Gruman argues that a lot more is needed than a management change if Microsoft hopes to have a future in the emerging mobile world. In his blog, he lays out a tough five-point prescription for Microsoft to get back in the game. For starters, Microsoft has to get out of its well-established cultural mindset that it's OK to ship crap that it might fix later on."

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  1. Ship now, fix later? by Maury+Markowitz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's never been ok to ship crap and fix it later. During the period that MS was doing so, its competition was shipping crapper products, releasing slower, and selling for more money. By any reasonable definition, they were the only game in town. Windows and Office had time to mature into the powerhouses they became.

  2. Re:Five minutes with HTC made me want to murder by pandrijeczko · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sorry, what's "enjoyable" about being forced to buy all your software from *ONE* place and only being *ALLOWED* to download what you are told you can download.

    As mostly Linux user, I will give Microsoft credit where it's due - you can run a Microsoft OS and throw on pretty much whatever free or commercial apps on it that you like, plus I understand from MS developer friends that they give away a lot of freebies to aid developers on Windows.

    Unlike Steve The Control Freak Jobs...

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