Major Microsoft Exec: "I'd buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft."

Richard Steele

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Sat Feb-03-07 11:11 PM
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Major Microsoft Exec: "I'd buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft."

James Edward Allchin was the Co-President of the
Platform Products and Services Group at Microsoft,
responsible for Microsoft's operating systems,
streaming media products and Internet services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Allchin

He just retired Jan 30th (the day they released Vista)

Check out this eMail he sent back in 2004:

SNIP> "I'm not sure how the company lost sight of what
matters to our customers...but in my view we lost our way.
I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what
resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means,
what performance means...."

Snip> "I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that doesn't translate into great products."

SNIP> "I'd buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft."

LINK to PDF of full text:
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.pdf

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bullimiami

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Sun Feb-04-07 11:10 AM
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1. thats a stupid comment. microsoft doesnt make hardware.

intel macs can run windows just like any pc, plus.

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Richard Steele

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Sun Feb-04-07 06:12 PM
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2. I'm pretty sure that Mr. Allchin knows that! nm

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bullimiami

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Mon Feb-05-07 12:15 PM
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3. well that makes it even stupider.

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Poiuyt

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Tue Feb-06-07 01:41 PM
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4. I assume what he meant was that he'd be using the Mac OS if he weren't at MS

I know that's not what he said, but that's the implication

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