On June 15, in case you didn't notice, Microsoft announced that Bill Gates will "transition out of a day-to-day role in the company" in 2008, though he'll remain as chairman. Bill, no one can complain about your new focus on philanthropy, but over the next two years, how about showing your customers a little love?
New report from Skillsearch found that 22% of those surveyed had been laid off within the past 12 months.
It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
The Callisto Protocol director thinks the solution involves the right people, the right timing, and perhaps a little bit of AI
I don't agree with that. I WISH I could agree with that. But buying habits and customer opinions prove otherwise
We've seen developers in the AAA space try new things and ideas. More often than not, the customers aren't willing to give things a chance, or not enough people buy into the project for it to grow.
Creativity works better in the indie space because the budgets, pressures, and expectations aren't the same.
it's a nice idea and it worked during the PS2/PS3-era when AAA didn't cost hundreds of millions of dollars. smaller budgets and shorter development time left room for more creativity and more risk. a game didn't need to sell 4 million+ copies to break even. things are different now.
This is the guy who bragged about crunching his staff and having them work through the night. Crunch culture has lost more talent and done more damage to the industry than any other factor. Screw him.
I agree with the philosophy and is exactly why I dont like MS. Please no flaming I own a 360.
and people say Sony reputation is bad. Sony may have a bad rep in the gaming world, but MS bad rep dwarfs that.
I don't dislike MS but I don't use Windows, I am a Linux fan ans stereotypically we Linux users have a thing against the big M, but a lot of that article is poorly made.
1- Microsoft IS very innovative- the company that claims innovation falsely is Apple. Microsoft is being praised by many KDE developers for their recent tech previews (screens like those in Minority Report, Revolutionary new Photo tool demoed a few days ago- it was amazingly innovative). The ideas Microsoft does take it often improves upon and a tonne of other companies steal ideas too, it's the way the user benefits- look at Sony and the PS3, it's taken a few tips from MS and Nintendo and added it's own spin- that's fine for a user who just wants a good product.
2. Microsoft's software doesn't suck, some aspects do but a lot of it is great- take Office for example it's brilliantly optimised and numerous OpenOffice developers have said they wish they had optimisation like MS's. Tablet PCs are great, Xbox 360 is good, and the dig at Microsoft's players not doing as well as the iPod? That's about the consumers perception of companies and most consumers are idiots. Microsoft applications are very stable generally too, there's room for improvement but they're better than most.
3. I agree with this one actually, it's true a shake up would be good, but they're getting there... hopefully.
Microsoft's bad rep is due to a poor past but the present is good and the future is looking better than ever. I won't be giving up my Linux box for a long time to come but when Vista arrives I am most likely going to go back to dual-booting.
The change is happening, you just can't change a huge company in the blink of an eye.
great article
i especially liked the bit where it said that microsoft always copies products that are already out. I already knew a few, such as when playstation was successful, along trotted the xbox, and the same with the ipod and zune. But i never realised they copied so much more. It makes me hate microsoft even more. There's no passion in what they do. They're just focused on money, money, money
isn't an arrogant company, like some i could mention (SONY)!!
although they PAWN the os market by 97%, for all their domination, u just can't hate on bill gates team!!!