WpCentral feels like a zen garden, where I can get away from the hate of a company I admire and would love a career in.
Windows Phone and Windows 8 are children of a company that has learnt a harsh lesson from Win Vista, Internet Explorer 8 & down (10 is awesome) and some other blunders. People in the tech industry are so MEDEVIAL sometimes: 'Oh, you can't be allowed to enter my land...because your great-great grandfather's brother's wife's cousin's second sister has defied the king for dropping a fork while dining at his palace' That's how the media, the devs and many consumers are treating Microsoft. Windows Vista sucked...so EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH MICROSOFT sucks. If you follow the news, Google, Apple and Adobe have replaced Microsoft as the bullys on the block. Google offers paid ads in search, Apple sues the **** out of companies while still copies without blushing, Adobe FORCED creative minds into their creative cloud system, FORCING them to pay monthly for a fundamental suite of software needed to work.
I know as a fact that thousands work for Microsoft, in them hundreds of smart and bright minds work to create a better world for YOU, they work their arses off at the drawing board, whilst still enjoying themselves in inventing, and what they get? Haters. If you tell Microsoft that they are a **** company who has no right to exist, you are insulting creative minds who might actually be more smart, intelligent...more...sane and humane than you.
Yeah...That's how I feel while reading the Forbes' article on how Windows Phone is failing. I don't like hating, but justified loathing of certain company in a sane manner is perfectly acceptable, Microsoft just happens to drill itself into my soft spot in the last two years. It changed the world, it got cocky for a decade, tried to fix itself but the world isn't helping. Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 now shines as my devices' main platform, because I love what Microsoft has done.
As a sidenote, I have not forgotten Nokia. Nokia's image as a falling innovator just saddens me. Unlike Microsoft, who I have distanced myself from in 2007 for obvious reasons, Nokia's name just radiates experience, iconic and yeah, 3310, and my first mobile as a nokia, whose name I have sadly forgotten, my first smartphone a nokia x6. Nokia has my respect to still innovate when half the world has given up. Nokia managed to still shock.
So, what do the folks say? Why is Microsoft's image still tainted, even after the rebranding in 2011?:
Windows Phone and Windows 8 are children of a company that has learnt a harsh lesson from Win Vista, Internet Explorer 8 & down (10 is awesome) and some other blunders. People in the tech industry are so MEDEVIAL sometimes: 'Oh, you can't be allowed to enter my land...because your great-great grandfather's brother's wife's cousin's second sister has defied the king for dropping a fork while dining at his palace' That's how the media, the devs and many consumers are treating Microsoft. Windows Vista sucked...so EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH MICROSOFT sucks. If you follow the news, Google, Apple and Adobe have replaced Microsoft as the bullys on the block. Google offers paid ads in search, Apple sues the **** out of companies while still copies without blushing, Adobe FORCED creative minds into their creative cloud system, FORCING them to pay monthly for a fundamental suite of software needed to work.
I know as a fact that thousands work for Microsoft, in them hundreds of smart and bright minds work to create a better world for YOU, they work their arses off at the drawing board, whilst still enjoying themselves in inventing, and what they get? Haters. If you tell Microsoft that they are a **** company who has no right to exist, you are insulting creative minds who might actually be more smart, intelligent...more...sane and humane than you.
Yeah...That's how I feel while reading the Forbes' article on how Windows Phone is failing. I don't like hating, but justified loathing of certain company in a sane manner is perfectly acceptable, Microsoft just happens to drill itself into my soft spot in the last two years. It changed the world, it got cocky for a decade, tried to fix itself but the world isn't helping. Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 now shines as my devices' main platform, because I love what Microsoft has done.
As a sidenote, I have not forgotten Nokia. Nokia's image as a falling innovator just saddens me. Unlike Microsoft, who I have distanced myself from in 2007 for obvious reasons, Nokia's name just radiates experience, iconic and yeah, 3310, and my first mobile as a nokia, whose name I have sadly forgotten, my first smartphone a nokia x6. Nokia has my respect to still innovate when half the world has given up. Nokia managed to still shock.
So, what do the folks say? Why is Microsoft's image still tainted, even after the rebranding in 2011?: