Bill Gates Reveals Secret of Microsoft's Success

"Bill Gates, in a interview with the BBC, revealed the secret of Microsoft's success: 'Most of our competitors were very poorly run. They did not understand how to bring in people with business experience and people with engineering experience and put them together,' said Gates. 'They did not think about software in this broad way. They did not think about tools or efficiency. They would therefore do one product, but would not renew it to get it to the next generation.' Mitch Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation, has a different view: 'Claims by Microsoft that people were buying the software because it was good are pretty self-serving. I'd like to smoke what he's smoking.' Gates also said that he took a 'conservative balance sheet approach' to running Microsoft explaining that he wanted 'great financial strength so we would have the flexibility to do software in the new way, or whatever we wanted to do.'"

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Lehet hogy tobben olvastatok mar, mindenesetre en csak most lattam meg.

( dmegyesi | 2008. 06. 20., p – 23:17 )

A linkelt oldalon volt egy Bill Gates Timeline.


December 1994
Spoof stories start circulating that Microsoft has plans to buy the Catholic Church. Microsoft issues a press release denying the story.

Hogy miket meg nem tudunk... :)

( Nyosigomboc v | 2008. 06. 21., szo – 01:21 )

Mindenesetre egy dolog igaz: nem fektettek sok energiat a software-re, ehelyett a marketing volt szamukra fontos. Eladtak a sok szart, es - bar rajottek az emberek, hogy hasznalhatatlan az egesz - annyi penzt osszeszedtek, hogy eleg penzuk lett elhitetni az emberekkel, hogy a kovetkezo verzio mar mukodni fog. Aztan persze az sem, de a beveteluk tovabb nott. A legjobban talan a Vistanal latszik a tenyleges fejlesztes es a marketing aranya, bar addigra mar a mindenki tudta, hogy hazudnak.
Ekozben a konkurencia a technikai fejlesztesre fektette a hangsulyt, de nem tudta eladni. Az MS miatt azt hittek, hogy az o software-uk is ugyanolyan bugos, kesobb elfogadtak, hogy nem is lehet jol megcsinalni.
Most, hogy az Apple is leallt a komolyabb fejlesztessel (x86 arch, par mp3 lejatszo, meg aranyaru telefon), es mar inkabb a PR es a marketing osztalyon van a hangsuly, mar nekik is eleg jol megy a szeker.

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