Comments on: Microsoft’s Political Vista

by: Stanford Matthews

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:23:08 +0000

Thanks for stopping by. My team won again today, so I’m having a fine weekend.

by: Angel

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:06:36 +0000

Interesting slant!..thanks for the link and have a super weekend!.:)

by: 123beta

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:18:01 +0000

Daylight Savings Open Trackback Weekend…

Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead one hour this Saturday night……

by: C. Harris

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:30:37 +0000

Stanford and I agree. Perri Nelson’s Website has just been added to our Honor Roll. The first addition was Maggie’s Notebook } Conservative Blog. Just our way of saying thanks for contributing meaningful comments to Blog @ MoreWhat.com

by: Perri Nelson

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:34:46 +0000

I didn’t take your statements as including the entire workforce. There are some very bright and innovative people working at Microsoft. There are quite a few ethical people there as well.

That’s not to say that some of the people there aren’t unethical either. There are definitely some of those as well. I think you’ll find that to be the case at most large companies.

I don’t particularly agree with Microsoft’s political strategies, especially with regard to immigration. There are a lot of things that work against the company’s interests in the stands taken by MSPAC.

I don’t agree with you about the E.U. and their anti-trust case though. I remember the U.S. anti-trust case quite well, and the effects that it had on my own work. There were several features that had to be cut from the first Release of SharePoint Portal Server as a direct result of that case, including some that I worked on.

In my personal opinion, a lot of that case wasn’t about competition, or anti-competitive practices. It was about some major software industry players using the government as a wedge to take market share.

We will probably disagree on this particular point. That’s OK. I’m happy to discuss it with you whenever you like.

by: Stanford Matthews

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:23:38 +0000

Outstanding!! Thanks for the comment Perri. Now the staff and I will have someone to critique our posts (or rants) on items related to Microsoft. BTW, we were careful to refer to Bill Gates and/or Microsoft as one individual and a corporate face. If, understandably, you took it to include the entire workforce at Microsoft, that was not our intent. As we believe the final decisions as well as ultmate project direction is limited as to the input of everyone involved.
I worked for Fortune 500 companies more than once. I don\’t anymore because I was unable to follow orders in all cases if the directive was unethical, especially if there was an ethical alternative that simultaneiously satisfied some corporate objectives. I could go on but you get the idea.

by: Perri Nelson

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:14:54 +0000

Despite what you say, Microsoft is not the root of all evil. There are a great many good software engineers that work there.

Their products aren’t perfect, but then no software company’s products are. As for “stealing” windows from Xerox, let’s not forget that Apple “stole” the UI first, and there were literally dozens of GUI shells for DOS that were based on what was done by Xerox.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am a former Microsoft Software Design Engineer.