Apple laptop to do a Microsoft presentation? Ballmer, c’mon?
Joe Wilcox of MicrosoftWatch.com writes
Windows Server Foundation is less than I expected. I had speculated that Microsoft would strip down features, using the existing "core" approach, to offer software specialized for different small business tasks. Instead, Microsoft has changed licensing terms, simply turning off broader capabilities available.
I had known about Windows Server ‘Foundation’ since last fall. Heck, frankly speaking, few sources at Microsoft had leaked it out because they were even shocked to observe a such a ‘low’ response by Microsoft to confuse the market even further. Could you get a bit more creative please?
Around January, word on the street was that Microsoft will try to hinder the Lotus Foundations campaign. I was smiling because it just meant that Redmond was helping me prove my case. That only results in my business partners being able to close more deals by providing more credibility to the linux revolution.
It is also typical Microsoft reactive response – never work towards innovation and advancement of the techonlogy, just find ways to increase short term bottom line.
Of late, Microsoft has been more prolific in producing press releases and security fixes than real innovation. -Link
This is just a strategy to improve the short term bottom line as it provides nothing new to the market. If anything, you are relying again on old bug-infested technology. Heck, If Microsoft was the only game in town, we would still be praising that Microsoft helped us by reducing downtime from 15 hours a month to 8 hours a month . C’mon, are you kidding me? Downtime should not be a option. Period. No business plans to fail, so why do we subject the small business to failed downtime of 15 hours a month? In web speak, Microsoft = FAIL.
Some initial thoughts: by naming a product so close to IBM’s Lotus Foundations, you are just trying to capture the market which would be ours. As a good friend of mine, Richard H, mentioned, it shows that they are in fact not only concerned but threatened. It only validates our solution again and again. Thank you Steve Ballmer, you are helping me market for free.
My concern is not that Microsoft is using our name to market. But is the confusion and the lost expectations from the poor small business guy who is just searching for ‘Foundations’ because someone recommended it to him. Sounds a bit like domain squandering? Maybe I should buy a domain “bilal’s boogle.com” and put my own search engine on it! (Google vs Boogle) After all, that kind of creativity is in full demand at Redmond. I might finally get a cushy position with a company paid Ferrrari…
If they can dream, so can I? Can I not?
