RE: OT: MicroSoft Admission

Why, it simply means that appearances are everything at M$. Let's read it carefully:

"Our strategy has never changed" -- i.e., our consultants have always been your foe.

"but, it sure looked that way" -- i.e., our customers started seeing our consultants as foes.

"diaslignment between our incentives and our resources and our strategy" -- i.e., we quit paying our consultants enough to keep pretending that they were your friends which hurt our strategy of maximizing consultant revenue.

"That caused our consultants to look sometimes less like your friend and more like your foe than we ever have intended it to." -- i.e., we never intended for anyone to see what we are really like.

8-)
Kevin Kennedy
First Point Energy Corporation

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What the f* does this euphemistic cr*pola mean:

...

  | "Our strategy has never changed with what we are
  | trying to do with consulting, but it sure looked
  | that way in the early part of the year because we
  | managed to get a disalignment between our
  | incentives and our resources and our strategy in
  | the marketplace," Ballmer said. "That caused our
  | consultants to look sometimes less like your
  | friend and more like your foe than we ever have
  | intended it to." 

...

???????????

On 19 Jul 2002 at 9:19, dgoulet_at_vicr.com wrote:

> Jared, First off my apologies for an off topic post, but considering the amount
> of OS discussions we have, I really don't think it's totally off base.
>
> Dick Goulet
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26230.html
>
> Ballmer 'fesses up to Linux/Windows cost
> FUD
> By Thomas C Greene in Washington
> Posted: 16/07/2002 at 19:23 GMT
...

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