Comments on: Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)

By: A death of a thousand cuts - the new Microsoft — Shooting at Bubbles

A death of a thousand cuts - the new Microsoft — Shooting at Bubbles — Sun, 24 May 2009 22:00:56 +0000

[...] today both Read/WriteWeb and Robert Scoble both post asking what is with all the single use RSS readers made with Windows Presentation [...]

By: Alexander Zahr

Alexander Zahr — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 09:20:26 +0000

Denounce is a neat little RSS/Podcast reader that you should take a look at.

http://www.thirteen23.com
blendout.blogspot.com

By: UK broadsheets narrow view of syndication » Andy C

UK broadsheets narrow view of syndication » Andy C — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:16:35 +0000

[...] like the New York Times, The Guardian also offers its own newsreader, Newspoint, which seems to defeat the point of RSS but [...]

By: blogger@wordpress

blogger@wordpress — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:04:07 +0000

“No, I meant “created”. ”
John, i think we have to agree to disagree on this.

While i don’t claim Microsoft is all sainty, i don’t agree that all the screwups were plain deliberate.

Given the amount of stick he got when he said ‘Vista forecasts were too bullish’ you don’t expect him to make a ‘We’re sorry’ statement. Do you?

By: rewindlife.com » Blog Archive » In San Francisco for Adobe’s Engage Event

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:03:38 +0000

[...] the software industry experts. You might have caught some hints about it on Ryan Stewart’s, Robert Scoble’s, Michael Arrington’s blogs, who both will be [...]

By: John C. Welch

John C. Welch — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:08:05 +0000

I would think ‘not taken care by’ as a more suited word than ‘created’. I even agree that MSFT could have done more.

No, I meant “created”. The current need for three malware checkers in a windows network? The absolute stupidity of the Windows security model? The bullshit that allowed things like all the Office malware to hose your OS?

Microsoft *created* those problems by ignoring, and in many cases laughing at good security practice, and their answer in Vista is to annoy the shit out of you with inane dialogs?

They sure as shit created the problem, and they’ve yet to fix it.

Do you think anyone @MSFT (even Ballmer) would really not be worried about the obvious anti-MSFT current? But not always can you make the decision that will please people. The ultimate boss of all these propreitery companies – The market – is a strange beast. It doesn’t reward ‘good behavior’.

I think he looks at the market share and says “Yeah, we suck, so what”. I’ve yet to hear anything coming out of Ballmer’s mouth that even HINTS at contriteness for the bullshit and pain his company caused over the last decade or so. Just continuing arrogance.

The sad thing is, you can see the first signs of that same disease in the Adobe Acrobat team, for whom you don’t count unless you’re “Big” enterprise.

Sad.