Comments on: Tinkerbell and maintaining your mojo http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/ Collaborating towards ecstasy Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: todd h http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-11266 todd h Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:32:58 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-11266 just saw my dad. he got a new computer, and it has vista. and as we pulled something up on the web, he commented -- w/o prompting -- about how he's just truly tired of getting screwed, not knowing where anything is on the thing anymore, confused by some of the changes.... he "just wanted XP back." for me, it was a tell-tale comment on lost mojo from an (ex-) pro-MS computer sales guy -- vista isn't "neat" and "new," it's just a huge PITA for him, and his voice was weary when he even discussed it. but inertia continues to be MS's ace in the hole. the license came w/ the dell, he won't bother to reinstall, even if he could dredge up an XP license + CDs. no non-geek does. just saw my dad. he got a new computer, and it has vista. and as we pulled something up on the web, he commented — w/o prompting — about how he’s just truly tired of getting screwed, not knowing where anything is on the thing anymore, confused by some of the changes…. he “just wanted XP back.” for me, it was a tell-tale comment on lost mojo from an (ex-) pro-MS computer sales guy — vista isn’t “neat” and “new,” it’s just a huge PITA for him, and his voice was weary when he even discussed it.

but inertia continues to be MS’s ace in the hole. the license came w/ the dell, he won’t bother to reinstall, even if he could dredge up an XP license + CDs. no non-geek does.

]]> By: ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » Does Mojo=Fun? http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-10842 ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » Does Mojo=Fun? Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:24:01 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-10842 [...] Chris was writing a post on Microsoft losing it’s mojo over at the CA blog at the same [...] [...] Chris was writing a post on Microsoft losing it’s mojo over at the CA blog at the same [...]

]]> By: The Shtikl Scrapbook http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-6473 The Shtikl Scrapbook Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:59:03 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-6473 [...] Source: Citizen Agency » Tinkerbell and maintaining your mojo [...] [...] Source: Citizen Agency » Tinkerbell and maintaining your mojo [...]

]]> By: TemporalBeing http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5794 TemporalBeing Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:34:03 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5794 Microsoft has certainly at least misplaced who its customers are. For example, with Vista, it seems Microsoft thinks its customer is not the average Joe or even the average Joe Businessman, but the RIAA and MPAA. They have lost touch with who their customer really is and as a result no one wants to be their customer or even wants to acknowledge being their customer. (Why acknowledge it if they are going to hate you, demean you, and mistreat you for it?) So, not only has Microsoft screwed their shareholders, but their customers as well...well no duh their business is dying and not faring well. As to quarterly results, they may do better later this year (especially after Vista SP1/SP2 is released), but that does not mean that they do not have a big problem. With Vista and Office 2007, the market is ripe to switch to Mac or Linux; KOffice, OOorg, StarOffice, Google Productivity Suite, or Corel Office. Especially as Microsoft has not put ODF support into Office, they are in trouble, certainly so when the rest of the multi-billion dollar business rides on the success of only two products - two products which are now themselves ripe for the picking. Microsoft has certainly at least misplaced who its customers are. For example, with Vista, it seems Microsoft thinks its customer is not the average Joe or even the average Joe Businessman, but the RIAA and MPAA. They have lost touch with who their customer really is and as a result no one wants to be their customer or even wants to acknowledge being their customer. (Why acknowledge it if they are going to hate you, demean you, and mistreat you for it?) So, not only has Microsoft screwed their shareholders, but their customers as well…well no duh their business is dying and not faring well.

As to quarterly results, they may do better later this year (especially after Vista SP1/SP2 is released), but that does not mean that they do not have a big problem. With Vista and Office 2007, the market is ripe to switch to Mac or Linux; KOffice, OOorg, StarOffice, Google Productivity Suite, or Corel Office. Especially as Microsoft has not put ODF support into Office, they are in trouble, certainly so when the rest of the multi-billion dollar business rides on the success of only two products - two products which are now themselves ripe for the picking.

]]> By: Carl Hilton Jones http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5769 Carl Hilton Jones Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:41:48 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5769 Microsoft never *had* any "mojo." Gates has always hated his customers --- ever since the Altair Basic fiasco. Furthermore, Microsoft has *never* had *any* useful products; all they have done is stifle innovation and hold the industry back. (However, as a programmer, they have certainly made things easy for me --- nobody expects software to actually work anymore.) In a free market Microsoft would never be able to sell anything. Microsoft never *had* any “mojo.” Gates has always hated his customers — ever since the Altair Basic fiasco. Furthermore, Microsoft has *never* had *any* useful products; all they have done is stifle innovation and hold the industry back. (However, as a programmer, they have certainly made things easy for me — nobody expects software to actually work anymore.) In a free market Microsoft would never be able to sell anything.

]]> By: [Sunspots] The effusive edition http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5001 [Sunspots] The effusive edition Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:37:09 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-5001 [...] The slow mojo-death of Microsoft over the last five years “Mojo isn’t about what’s right or wrong inside an organization — it has much more to do with what’s going on externally — and how your actions and behaviors make people feel. A wise woman once said that it’s not what you say, but how you make your audience feel that matters.” [...] [...] The slow mojo-death of Microsoft over the last five years “Mojo isn’t about what’s right or wrong inside an organization — it has much more to do with what’s going on externally — and how your actions and behaviors make people feel. A wise woman once said that it’s not what you say, but how you make your audience feel that matters.” [...]

]]> By: Paul M. Watson http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-4277 Paul M. Watson Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:24:45 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-4277 Sun seem to be getting some mojo back. Those T1000 and T2000 boxes with Solaris and ZFS are fun and good. SmugMug likes em. As for MS, yeah. It is sad really. I want MS to do well so we have continued OS competition. Sun seem to be getting some mojo back. Those T1000 and T2000 boxes with Solaris and ZFS are fun and good. SmugMug likes em.

As for MS, yeah. It is sad really. I want MS to do well so we have continued OS competition.

]]> By: SayWhat? http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-4262 SayWhat? Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:39:28 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/02/13/tinkerbell-and-maintaining-your-mojo/#comment-4262 And when MSFT's earnings beat expectation the next quarter and the one after that and so on, what does say? MS may have lost some Mojo is some places but it's making up for it in others. BTW, Tim Bray is a Sun employee. If anyone should know about lost Mojo, it's those at Sun. And when MSFT’s earnings beat expectation the next quarter and the one after that and so on, what does say? MS may have lost some Mojo is some places but it’s making up for it in others.

BTW, Tim Bray is a Sun employee. If anyone should know about lost Mojo, it’s those at Sun.

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