And today, Microsoft isn’t a disfunctional organization?
Ballmer having a fit as his best guys all bail to Google?
Windows Vista? 5 years to make what? who wanted that?
I think this means Yahoo is the next AOL and Google wins.
Microsoft will spend years to try to make Yahoo into a Microsoft-plug-in injection virus.
Time for Jerry Yang to start working on his charitable foundation. It will be much more fun.
Google flipped the bird at the conventional wisdom, and unlike Yahoo and post 1999 Microsoft, didn’t put “adult supervision” and “business people” in charge.
(c.f. post-Apollo NASA)
PhD nerds run it, and PhD nerddom is the rule.
Looks like nerds are better at business than businessmen are at nerding.