This thread is too funny. I can't resist. Normally I don't pick on MS but the temptation was to great. No offense is meant... B**lmer: "I want it all. Even if we can't do this, we'll scare the competition away. Then one day we we get our sh*t together, at least we won't have to fight, litigate or buy our way into the pie. It's my pie and I don't share."(gets on the phone and makes patent attorneys get busy filing vaporware patents, another call to marketing for more vapor ads)B**lmer holds a press event talking about how wonderful the new thing is. Goes on a teleconference (late as usual) with partners and talks about it. Three years later it's "almost" ready to Beta. Six months after that he hears how any software company actually has a shipping product and is making waves, so he starts cursing and throwing chairs around. A scene right out of the Sooranos. The plot reminds me of a film called "Lover Come Back". http://www.dorisday.net/lover_come_back.html It had Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with Tony Curtis as a supporting actor. My only question is, which one is B**lmer. Laugh, it's supposed to be funny. Tony >>> "Picher, Michael" <mpic...@cmctechgroup.com> 07/18/09 5:39 AM >>> That could be quite a read!
"Microsoft is developing..." = "We haven't even started this product yet but we want to stifle the competition and then just buy some company". "Microsoft XYZ Version 1" = "This is really going to suck, but we want to get something out the door." "Microsoft XYZ Version 2" = "Well, we didn't kill this product off yet... it still sucks but we're working on making it suck less..." "Microsoft XYZ Version 2, Service Pack 1" = "We have reduced the suck factor by 50% and this thing might actually work for 50% of users." .... From: Keith Gearty [mailto:ke...@glensound.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 1:40 PM To: Dale Worley Cc: Picher, Michael; sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org Subject: Re: [sipx-users] interesting post in TMC blogs... off topic but i thought the group might be interested. Dale Worley wrote: On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 13:58 +0100, Keith Gearty wrote: The comments at the bottom of the article (by a Microsoft guy who was working on Response Point) seem to deny the claims in the article. All I see are notices that people are leaving the project and that the current version will continue to be supported. Which translates, in the common tongue, to "product killed". Hmmm. Maybe I need a read a newbie tutorial on interpreting Microsoft marketing crap. </mpic...@cmctechgroup.com> _______________________________________________ sipx-users mailing list sipx-users@list.sipfoundry.org List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-users Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-users sipXecs IP PBX -- http://www.sipfoundry.org/
