Windows head Steven Sinofsky leaves Microsoft

[cerebus]

MS must seriously bring new faces to the company that gives the consumer the impression they're dealing with fresh exciting products/prospects here. The shareholders should demand it. We need Bart, not Homer.

Yeah but that's what Sinofsky was. Him and J Allard were the only hope for MS for me :/

 

[BeVonk!]

Yeah but that's what Sinofsky was. Him and J Allard were the only hope for MS for me :/

Allard yes. Sinofsky, nope. There are rumours that Sinofsky was behind Allard's departure and that the wheel turned ...

 

[AlphaBravo]

The more things change the more they stay the same....MS will stay the overpriced, over complicated, under developed OS it is...Sinofsky or no Sinofsky

 

[cerebus]

Allard yes. Sinofsky, nope. There are rumours that Sinofsky was behind Allard's departure and that the wheel turned ...

http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...st_its_steve_jobs_how_will_it_ever_catch.html
That's a useful article. It pretty much sums up what I'm getting at here. Microsoft desperately needs a (perhaps polarizing) visionary who intuitively gets what customers want before they know themselves, and has the uncompromising vision to execute on the detail needed to produce world-class hardware. They cannot afford at this time to bet on synergy; synergy for Microsoft has always meant mediocrity, compromise, design-by-committee, and confusion at the customer end. Win8 is a perfect example of what happens when you allow 'synergistic' voices to design a single OS; not one clear vision emerges and the result is a half baked etiolated version of what could have been.