Craig Burton in Open Letter to Steve Ballmer:
| Well F*&% me. Dude, after all of these years, you are still micro managing the Windows release! |
| Now I know why Microsoft is now been relegated to insignificance in the identity market. |
| The reason is simple. Internal policy, managed by you, prohibits product mangers from keeping up with trends and innovation. |
| Let me repeat, if the Federated Identity Group made the required changes to the CardSpace selector today, it will be two years–maybe longer–before it makes it to the market. |
| The bottleneck to this problem–and I suspect a slew of others–is you. |
| As your friend and long-time competitor/advisor on these issues, I urge you to rethink how this is works. Because it isn’t working. |
Craig has such a gentle way of being blunt. My fave line from Craig, addressed to a lame consulting client we shared many years ago: Put down the customer. Step away from the marketplace. I believe that’s what Craig is saying Microsoft is doing here, even if they don’t mean to.
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