Rob Enderle Quotes on People (7 Quotes)

Pretty much across the board people are saying that Microsoft is dysfunctional. They are not cooperating across business groups, ... The end result of this reorganization is to fix that to get it so people who should be cooperating are cooperating, so they can start focusing on competitors instead of competing against themselves.

With Microsoft bleeding a certain number of people to companies like Google, putting Ozzie in that position sends a message to employees that they will be loved,

It would probably crash the PC consumer market, given that being able to copy songs is one of the reasons that people are buying new machines,

Granted, it was fairly early. But we do remember that people were downloading things across remote servers across what became the Internet at that time,

A major brand entering the space is always going to be problematic for anyone who is already there. People are likely to be there shopping and they could easily be pulled into a digital music experience.

It's the product launch you look at to see if they got the merger right. This shows they're back up and running and open for business, which is important because in a merger, people forget the company has products and focus on the merger only. So far they haven't broken anything.

Microsoft has to be prepared for the future need to adopt certain behaviors that are much more in line with the people who develop and use software, ... That's why Ozzie was selected for this role. He is a better analog for Torvalds than anyone else -- someone who can think like Torvalds from the Microsoft point of view to compete.