'Microsoft Is Basically Malfunctioning,' Says A 20-Year Veteran Of The Company

1. Leave one of the best known companies 10 years prior. 2. Write book critical of company. 3. Profit.

Found that missing post-collecting underwear point.

But, in all seriousness, MSFT has its challenges. However, it still brings in huge amounts of money and is dominant (though not as much as before) in a couple of major areas. It is a well known company and an easy target for many to criticize.

Back in the 1980's IBM lost its way with personal computers, as Microsoft disrupted it with regard to its legacy systems. Looks like MS is in the same position now.

In the same argument he says MS should compete with FB and spin off the Xbox which is a "crummy product"? At any given time millions of people are on Xbox Live, they stay on it for hours at a time, and unlike FB people are paid subscribers to Xbox Live. If anything FB should be jealous of Xbox and Xbox Live. How many FB users would pay $7/month just for the service?

Essentially ...

The software giant is wrongly focused on competing with Apple by "pissing off its loyal hardware manufacturers" and releasing its own PC ...