Word from Redmond is that staff are not happy bunnies.
The "anonymous" Microsoft blogger "Mini Microsoft" claims that the demise of Kin and talk of more layoffs is causing the 'Softies to get mightly miffed.
A billion dollars wasted on Kin, 500 phones sold and a huge amount of ground lost in the mobile space.
"Everything I hear about Windows Phone is negative. Leadership is shrugging its shoulders like this disaster is no big deal,” he said. Meanwhile rumours are that Enterprise Agreement renewals continue to trend downward, and at an alarming rate.
The Department of Defense which has practically had a blank cheque for Microsoft is not buying either.
Microsoft staff are losing faith in the senior leadership, but no one can see how any new leader could step in and make the hard choices and forge a new, urgently needed direction.
Some staff hope that Bill Gates will come back, but there are fears that even a move like that would not be enough. If another recession takes hold, company stock is going to go down the loo, but “the leadership team also shrugs this off as if it isn't a major issue”.
Apparently the Danger team who were involved in the Kin project could not believe that they had ended up working in such a “a screwed up place”.
They took long lunches, sat in conference rooms and went on coffee breaks and the conversations always went something like this..."Can you believe that they want us to do this?"
Another anon comment from an ex staffer said that he left Microsoft about four months ago to go to a hardware/services vendor that deals with actually solving customer problems rather than dealing with internal politics.
There are too many GMs, Directors, Senior Directors, etc that either should not be in those positions or just cause chaos to undermine efforts that could potentially eliminate their jobs, the blogger moaned.
When it comes to the relative realm, the moment a polarity is realised, its alterego will too be realised. There is not a single exception to this principle otherwise relative/comparative/judgemental existence is meaningless. You cannot have a hole without a ball. Much like a high voltage power line being benign until it is grounded/loaded, when there is euphoria, there will be ecstasy. The former is aggression [against others like in “winning” some stupid-cum-dumb footie match] and the latter, depression/aggression-against-oneself. Ecstasy is actually depression. Ask any addict of anything, what happens after the fix.
A few-odd billions of years of electromagnetism squandered within 400-odd years, that’s what the likes of the transient attempt at infinity, Microsoft, say, is doing. Unless one becomes part of that which creates energy, instituting any form of political, social, financial or commercial antidote is futile. The solution to a problem lies within its roots and not its consequences. Without realising one’s true roots, we are merely akin to a jellyfish bobbing along with the ocean waves but beceause we’ve been gifted the faculty of thoughts, we think we are onto somethig real. Should this be untrue, there’s merely some cannon on the loose but should it be true, does that mean almost the whole of humanity is condemned? Of course, not – how about, say, 90% - give or take the odd 5%, and the likes of relative infinity can continue squandering/posturing and “growing” and it still won’t make any difference to anything [really] real.
The desire of Reality is Love, oka the empowerment of its Truth, and this desire is [reflected] within all [real humans, partial or otherwise], and it is not the same as the desire for Reality, which the religious, be they of faith or intellect, are seeking high and low for. When there is greed [for infinity/growing-bigge], there will be fear. Depression? There is no such thing because it is merely a reaction to its own aggression. Without a single exception.