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I wonder what statement this questionaire has. As I expected, the average over all 6 parts is nearly 3 (3,05 at this moment). And all single questions are near to 3, too.
Why is that so? I don't know, but I expected it to be, because I didn't know anything about the next MS Boss. As long as we don't know who will follow, we can't say anything about the possibilities. I could be everything.
If I would be the next to decide for MS, I would change the communication at first. I would try to integrate all parts of the company and I would integrate users and developers and the productdevelopment and not just decide they have to change how they work and give them a new awful design, that complicate the work because you have to concentrate not to vomit.
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We cannot know what is going to happen.
That depends on who the new CEO will be, and what Bill and their folks ask him/her to achieve.
The fact is that MS is missing the target with its last products, Win8 and the Surface were a failure, but this is not new for MS.
Winds still can change, and we have already seen this before.
Remember spreadsheets before Excel? Netscape? First collaborative office applications? the Internet itself? SQL databases?
MS arrived late to all of these, but finally found its way to be among the leaders in each category.
What should happen?
Well, all the options mentioned in the survey are a must.
Still, a hit (I'm talking about innovation) would be great for a proper comeback for a giant like MS is.
Will that happen? Until we now who the new CEO will be, it is uncertain, and if I have to bet now, I would add, improbable.
Still, MS is not going to disappear any soon, and will continue to be one of the giants of this world.
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I think one thing that would help is if the Visual Studio group was given more power to determine direction. Microsoft's success has been mostly because this group has provided a way for businesses to get things done.
Need to strengthen the UX group so that there is actually a strong usability testing group, and the ability to make products so that they are similar. Still do not have any standard for the function keys for instance. This has been one of the areas that Apple has always had an advantage over Microsoft. Product introduction should be heavily influenced by useability testing. It this had happened Windows 8 would have never been released as it is for desktop use, and the ribbon would have been better introduced so that experienced users did not come to hate it. Just looke a visual studio and their icons. What was the reason for changing some of the icons. Also, monochrome appearance would have been killed early.
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Microsoft...testing.
Testing...Microsoft.
Nope, I can't see any sentence that include those two words that doesn't also contain "doesn't noticeably do any", or "ignores the results of".
Maybe that'll improve? But I won't be holding my breath...
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Member 10250728 wrote: Winds still can change, and we have already seen this before.
Remember
spreadsheets before Excel? Netscape? First collaborative office applications?
the Internet itself? SQL databases?
MS arrived late to all of these, but
finally found its way to be among the leaders in each category.
I remember someone telling me (10 years ago), "Microsoft has never been the industry leader in anything, they have made a company out of being 2nd best at EVERYTHING."
There was a lot of truth and smarts to this. If you wanted something that worked with everything out of the box, you bought MS products. Maybe it wasn't the best, but you didn't waste days trying to get it to work, and it always worked good enough.
When you're 2nd best at everything, your always reliable, there is no thought necessary for the consumer to pick up your product, and you don't waste $$ researching in the wrong directions.
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Survey Makerizer:
It's finally time - a new day - a new age - you need not maintain your aura of perfection - so . . .
"suck it in - and redo this survey with a proper "Don't Give a Damn" option for each option. A survey with forced answers is no survey at all.
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The results would mean more if you showed what percentage picked which number. You can get the current average by having almost everyone pick three. Or have half the people pick 1 and the other half 5.
Brent
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I think you are describing a chart of (supposedly) a bell curve.
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Changing Micrsoft may be like trying to get an elephant to dance the ballet. The technology and tactics that Microsoft used to create dominance are institutionalized there. New leadership will have to change the culture as well as the focus.
How do current technical and non-technical employees see Microsoft culture and their roles? How maluable is the culture to a new focus and philosophy? This may be a bigger issue than changing and tuning the product calendar and development resources.
There are more and more creative, talented developers each month. There are better tools and languages for developers. The talent needed for a change in focus is many times more attainable now than in Microsoft's past.
Hopefully Microsoft will find someone with a good grasp of current technology and markets rather than traditional markets. They will need to have stellar skills to understand changing technology from technology and marketing perspective like Gates did.
Would it be better to divide and conquer the problem rather than go forward leading the elephant?
"Courtesy is the product of a mature, disciplined mind ... ridicule is lack of the same - DPM"
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it really depends on who becomes the new CEO.
if it's another sales jockey like Ballmer than it's business as usual with Microsoft. However, if they steer more towards vision, innovation and other cool buzzwords of high tech industry.
the acquisition of Nokia brings with it the idea of an old microsoft insider. not sure if that's good??
you want something inspirational??
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Is it possible to distinguish the votes better?
Averaging the votes seems to mostly lead to "No opinion". But 1 vote for strongly agree and 1 vote for strongly disagree doesn't really make an average of "No opinion"... It would be more interesting to see for each question how many 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 votes were cast 
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The poll is poorly designed. Before seeing the results, I was pretty sure that the more answers there will be, the average will be around 3. The poor design comes from the fact that 3 doesn't mean "no opinion". That is not the middle of "strongly agree" and "strongly disagree". It is a line between agreement and disagreement, but not a lack of opinion.
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I would assume (from just eye-balling the results) that many people, like myself, chose #3 in response to many/most of the survey's hypotheticals.
But, imho, the survey is flawed by not giving respondents a chance to distinguish between "having no opinion," and other, quite possible, responses to the hypotheticals, such as:
1. "I cannot make a reasonable assumption, based on what I know now, about the net effect of Ballmer's departure on aspect 'X' of Microsoft's future." In simpler terms: "Cannot predict."
2. "I have a low estimate of the probability that the outcome I sense ... intuit ... estimate ... guess at, now: will become 'reality.' " A more subtle variation on "Cannot predict," but, possibly an important one ?
3. "I don't have enough information, yet, to begin to extrapolate what may happen in the future." In simpler terms "need more information," or, "too early to tell."
Where I think the survey design really comes up short, is the lack of more "total outcome" projective scenarios; such as:
1. Two years from now Microsoft total market share in hardware (including smart-phones, tablets, phablets, etc., as well as XBox, keyboards, mice, etc.) will be a larger part of MS's software revenues.
2. Two years from now Microsoft Windows #X.x will increase market share compared to IOS, and Android.
3. If I invest in Microsoft stock, now: in two years I believe my potential revenue (from dividends and/or selling stock) will be higher than if I invested in Apple, or Google.
4, Given the departure of Sinofsky, now Ballmer, and the acquisition of Nokia mobile hardware (after Nokia's "adventure" with Microsoft had pretty much dragged the company into the mud), the decline in sales of new PC's, the BYOD movement, the shift in market-share towards small-form-factor portable devices, the slow rate of Win 8.x adoption, etc.: it is quite possible that two years from now Microsoft will have failed as a company.
Just my opinions.
yours, Bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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With the news that MS have just bought Nokia's mobile division, including Stephen Elop (CEO) from Nokia, an ex-MS employee, I have a strong suspicion who may be being lined up to replace Bulmer.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Is it so important to let every one no you know nothing about how MS works?
As opposed to us voters who (think they) know exactly how things work in MS and generally in the world of software (and smartphones)!
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I have no opinion on your question what so ever
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Exactly, so is that an answer?
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while loving gives you courage.
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I guess it's a CP attempt to show that O so many developers hate MS 
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Why not? No opinion is an existing option and a separate question too.
The survey itself is confusing (probably on purpose). "3 = no opinion" could be "3 = no change", but there is already a separate question for this. What I see is a survey with results that can be explained from many different aspects giving a lot of "excuses" and many options for "exclusions" and "trimming". The key is the definition of "quality" votes.
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drdigit wrote: "3 = no opinion" could be "3 = no change"
 True.
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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I my case, simply to register the fact that as no announcement has made as to his successor, its too early too predict. See my comment earlier.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Already upvoted 
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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There are multiple questions. Even though I voted 3 on a couple of questions, that doesn't mean that I have no opinion on any or all of them. This question is too early. Not only has Ballmer's replacement not been had a visible track record, he has not yet been announced or even rumoured yet. Ballmer has not left, and will be with us another year.
I voted 4 for the 'better for developers' question because (despite his stated intentions) Ballmer was not good for developers and just about anybody would be better... but that is still severe speculation.
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Harvey
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An average of about 3 doesn't necessarily mean most people selected the 'no opinion' option. It could mean there is a 50:50 split between those who chose 1 (strongly against) and those who chose 5 (strongly for).
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