Comments on: microsoft spin machine in action (watch out for the suds) http://www.sworddance.com/blog/2007/08/17/microsoft-spin-machine-in-action-watch-out-for-the-suds/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: patrick http://www.sworddance.com/blog/2007/08/17/microsoft-spin-machine-in-action-watch-out-for-the-suds/#comment-6446 patrick Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:57:29 +0000 http://www.sworddance.com/blog/2007/08/17/microsoft-spin-machine-in-action-watch-out-for-the-suds/#comment-6446 My comments over at Don's site: Nice thoughts but as I point in my own blog ... Bill Gates has been promising real-soon-now on the SaaS line for over 5 years. Also you do a bait and switch. You compare Google Apps with Office 2007 when it comes to features and to Microsoft Works when it comes to price. Lets see you compare Google Apps to MS Works on features as well. Sad reality here Don -- no one in the valley wants to be brought by Microsoft any more. You know when there was that buzz about Microsoft buying Yahoo earlier this year? I talked to a person from Yahoo! HR about that. She said there is no way it was going to happen, half of Yahoo would quit the next day. The days of microsoft being able to buy their way back from mistakes are dwindling if companies can't guarantee to microsoft that the engineers are going to stay. My comments over at Don’s site:

Nice thoughts but as I point in my own blog … Bill Gates has been promising real-soon-now on the SaaS line for over 5 years.

Also you do a bait and switch. You compare Google Apps with Office 2007 when it comes to features and to Microsoft Works when it comes to price. Lets see you compare Google Apps to MS Works on features as well.

Sad reality here Don — no one in the valley wants to be brought by Microsoft any more.

You know when there was that buzz about Microsoft buying Yahoo earlier this year? I talked to a person from Yahoo! HR about that. She said there is no way it was going to happen, half of Yahoo would quit the next day.

The days of microsoft being able to buy their way back from mistakes are dwindling if companies can’t guarantee to microsoft that the engineers are going to stay.

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