Microsoft is a software firm. Over the last thirty years it has made hundreds of billions of dollars writing software. It has revolutionised the world we live in and changed everyone’s lives for the better with its software. I hires some of the smartest and talented people on the planet.
So quite why everyone thinks a glider made by Microsoft staff, primarily developers, should be the best glider in the PARIS programme and the builders are losers because it isn’t is beyond me.
Big behemoths like Microsoft are more like the Government than they would like to believe. They think because they are good at one thing they can turn their hand to anything and interestingly enough the public, and journalists, think so to. I believe it is because we have this belief that if you throw enough money at something it gets done even though we now from 90 years of government that it is untrue. This shows that having bright people fromanother discipline and throwing money at something doesn’t get it done either. You need some skills in the area and then it gets done. Money helps but doesn’t enable.
I liked the quote “This is kind of like the most Microsoft thing we could do. We took a team of smart guys and girls and we built this thing from scratch.”. Smart computer tech guys where everything worked on the computer but not in real life. Who would have thunk it?
In a way it reminds me of the climate change group. They have models that show something but the real world isn’t playing along. At least the Microsoft team went away and were wondering where they went wrong. The Climate nutters still think their model is 100% right and it’s the world that is wrong.
So skills do matter. What a bummer. Politics and sex are still the only areas where no skill is required and they are similar in so many ways.
Shock discovery that smart people don’t know everything
Microsoft is a software firm. Over the last thirty years it has made hundreds of billions of dollars writing software. It has revolutionised the world we live in and changed everyone’s lives for the better with its software. I hires some of the smartest and talented people on the planet.
So quite why everyone thinks a glider made by Microsoft staff, primarily developers, should be the best glider in the PARIS programme and the builders are losers because it isn’t is beyond me.
Big behemoths like Microsoft are more like the Government than they would like to believe. They think because they are good at one thing they can turn their hand to anything and interestingly enough the public, and journalists, think so to. I believe it is because we have this belief that if you throw enough money at something it gets done even though we now from 90 years of government that it is untrue. This shows that having bright people fromanother discipline and throwing money at something doesn’t get it done either. You need some skills in the area and then it gets done. Money helps but doesn’t enable.
I liked the quote “This is kind of like the most Microsoft thing we could do. We took a team of smart guys and girls and we built this thing from scratch.”. Smart computer tech guys where everything worked on the computer but not in real life. Who would have thunk it?
In a way it reminds me of the climate change group. They have models that show something but the real world isn’t playing along. At least the Microsoft team went away and were wondering where they went wrong. The Climate nutters still think their model is 100% right and it’s the world that is wrong.
So skills do matter. What a bummer. Politics and sex are still the only areas where no skill is required and they are similar in so many ways.