As someone who has thought for years that Microsoft products generally are crap, I am amused to see this from Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger and author of the Scobleizer blog, "one of the most-read sources of technology commentary on the internet:"
The words are empty. Microsoft's internet execution sucks (on the whole). Its search sucks. Its advertising sucks. If that's `in it to win', then I don't get it...[...]
Microsoft isn't going away. Don't get me wrong. They have record profits, record sales, all that. But on the Internet? Come on. This isn't winning. Microsoft: stop the talk. Ship a better search, a better advertising system than Google, a better hosting service than Amazon, a better cross-platform Web development ecosystem than Adobe, and get some services out there that are innovative (where's the video RSS reader? Blog search? Something like Yahoo's Pipes? A real blog service? A way to look up people?) That's how you win.
Hahahahahahaha. Yeah, Microsoft sucks. But Bill Gates is still a zillion times richer than any of us, so I guess he's got the last laugh. Meanwhile, we struggle with the inferior, mediocre, lame-ass software his company puts out. Well, at least he gives a lot of money to charity!