Microsoft’s Lost Decade ⇥ vanityfair.com
I’ve been waiting for the full article to go live all month, and it’s finally here. There are so many good quotes that Kurt Eichenwald dug up which I could pull from this, but one of the best is right at the end of the article, from Steve Jobs:
“They were never as ambitious product-wise as they should have been. Bill likes to portray himself as a man of the product, but he’s really not. He’s a businessperson. Winning business was more important than making great products. Microsoft never had the humanities and liberal arts in its DNA.”