Six Fatal Errors
July 2, 2008
Interesting read. No this isn’t a funny article on Windows but is a serious one listing the mistakes Microsoft made.
He quibbled over the meaning of the simplest words (”compete” and “ask” were real stumpers). And on the occasions that he remembered e-mails he authored, he denied knowing what he meant by them. The same detail-oriented, driven genius who created the world’s most valuable company–and a GDP-size fortune of his own–was seemingly out to lunch.
