It gives me mixed feelings. On one hand, it re-enforces why I left the company. The management changes were long overdue. Robbie and J were very smart and charismatic leaders. But sometimes you need more than Charisma to run a successful business
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On the other hand, this is a company of very smart and capable people who have brought us incredible amount of technology which many of us could not live without. People used to laugh at company old mission statement of a computer on every desk. They got us there, not Apple. And not Google.
In some sense, it is good to be liberated from all Microsoft religion. I am typing this on Google Chrome which in almost every way is better than IE 8. My phone is Android which has a ton of issues but is still a major step up from Windows Mobile. But then again, I created my company's web site with Microsoft Expression Web which was a ton easier to use than Macromedia Dreamweaver which I tried for a month before switching (I don't think anyone with usability skills works at Adobe).
In that sense, I also don't appreciate people thinking an all-Mac religion is a good thing. The only good thing to me is no religion
. I would have used an iPhone if it was available on my favorite high quality carrier: Verizon. I am not marrying to iPhone and getting stuck with sub-par carrier and not be able to make a phone call when I need to make.
BTW, I have lived on both sides of the fence over the last 30 years. I started with MS-DOS, went to Windows 3.1, then Mac for many years, and then after frustration with low variety of Mac hardware, came to Windows side and have not looked back. Yes, I cringe at the poor architecture of PC platform. It is a tangled mess that is tamed good enough to use.
OK, I think I am rambling so I will stop here
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