Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Facebook is not writing a Windows Vista app. Correct. The biggest things to hurt Microsoft coming out of Vista are what we just talked about losing developers, what we just talked about losing users. Consumers who are excited to buy a computer, they’re just not excited to buy a Windows Vista PC. But the biggest thing is they lost years of their very best talent. Vista was a black hole. As it just kept growing and growing and growing, it would suck in more teams. As it sucked in more teams, you would get the talent that it would suck in, but then it also would suck in executives and distinguished engineer talent from elsewhere to come fix it. Microsoft is about to be in a place where they need to compete and understand a changing landscape in social, in mobile, in search. They still have to fight the browser war. IE is peaking and about to start falling off a cliff and are completely consumed by Vista. I think a lot of the consumer stuff can be answered by Steve Ballmer wasn’t really a consumer-oriented technologist. That seems fair. I think that is true. Sure, true. But that’s not the whole answer.…

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