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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Thursday, July 08, 2004Microsoft's Worst Enemy: SuccessBusiness Week: "Microsoft is stuck in a full-blown midlife crisis. The 24-year-old company is now a sprawling organization with dozens of businesses, modest revenue growth, and a flat stock price. Instead of being driven to change the world -- the mission its best employees signed up for -- a key focus now for Ballmer is 'process excellence,' which seems unlikely to inspire Microsoftees to stay up all night creating the Next Big Thing ... Ballmer has a far more difficult task [than Bill Gates did in 1995, when he rallied the troops with his 'Internet Tidalwave' memo]. It's Microsoft's very success that has brought on its malaise. The company so thoroughly dominates that it's hard for it to grow much faster than the computer industry. So Microsoft's biggest challenge isn't some external opportunity or threat. It's Microsoft." [ Posted at 3:01 PM | Permalink ]
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