Correcting the Record about Microsoft
June 12, 2006
A List blogger Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft for a podcasting startup, but wants to correct the record about some assumptions some people are making about what this means for Microsoft.
I have read Scoble for a few months, and maybe I missed his heyday, but I don’t find him to be terribly interesting. This is in part, I think, because I don’t land very hard on either side of the Microsoft wars—that is, I don’t see them as the evil empire or as the greatest organization in the world. As an analyst, I see them as a dominant software company, but not dominant in the areas that I follow most closely—content management and publishing systems. As a small business person, I look at Microsoft the way I look at my accountant and lawyer—as things I have to spend money on. (And, yes, I know that I could go the open source route, but I just have never taken the time to do it—I am too busy doing client work.) I guess my only other opinion about Microsoft is that their products are less reliable than they should be, given the enormous resources of the company. For example, with two million beta users, Vista better work well, and so far it doesn’t.
But back to Scoble. I wish him well in his new venture. He sounds excited about it. But I think his value as a blogger just declined precipitously, as he is no longer in the belly of the best.
UPDATE: Scoble was gracious enough to link to me.
Posted by Bill Trippe at June 12, 2006 12:25 PM
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Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe
Posted by WaltDe at August 31, 2006 12:59 PM