wow.....

hey i do not want to be rude but sometimes i will be.

why?  I am sometimes *VERY* honest.

over the last few years i see and hear more and more that i do not like about MS.

seems to a lot of folks who think there are problems at HQ.

sorry but that what i have been seeing and hearing from many sources.

and I am not an ex-employee with an ax to grind.  I am a customer.

but will i continue to be a customer and tell others about MS ?  Not sure .... it depends on what MS does.  

I have been doing this stuff for like 25 years, in the last 2-3 I have been less and less comfortable with what is happening. 

the ball is in your court MS.

I'll just leave this here: http://minimsft.blogspot.com/

@figuerres:

I don't know if the problem is Vision or communication skills, but it surely feels Microsoft is like toddler who needs a new toy every 10 minutes, for me one example is .Net, I know its in there but .Net was the platform of choice (most of the time) and  now it's like the red-haired stepchild. I have Windows 8 in a PC but it is so frustrating that I don't feel the need to test the programming experience of Metro with XAML, I'm just using it to test VS2011, maybe the experience is great but somehow I doubt it.
Another point is Azure, they moved Mark and The Gu to the cloud, is this the Microsoft style? Put all the chips in one thing hoping it take off?
Maybe it's not Microsoft but the divisions, my Xbox is great and the experience is smooth, the Keyboards and mice are great.

All of the above.

a few years back i did some work where i heard a lot about the internal stuff at another large corp. and honestly it sounds like they both have the same things happening ... seems like mid-age rot or something like that ... i do hope / want MS to grow past this stage and come back with some really great stuff.

I am not complaining just to whine.  I would like nothing better than for some of MS to see this and take action.  that may not happen but at least i am willing to say it.

Here's what I posted in the other thread, it probably fits better here.

The Courier project is a great example. If MS had brought that out two years ago, they would have sold millions of them and Apple would be hurting. The tour that was posted of the "Microsoft Home" showed off lots of super neat tech, but none of it was planned to be a real product. The charging tray, the Media Center/video integration stuff...why isn't MS bring these to market? If they sit in MS Research for years, competitors will beat them to it. Then when the product finally does come out, they're accused of reacting or copying the market.

Their "three screens and a cloud" vision is great. But they're not doing enough with it. Moving user data into the cloud is a good start, but get that software on iPhones, Androids, Blackberrys, Wii, TVs, blu-ray players, Xboxes, PS3s, Macs, PCs, cars, airplanes, etc. Don't just meet market expectations, surpass them! MS is a software company, yet they behave as though they're a closed-ecosystem hardware company. I don't want to have to get a windows phone to use Live features. I don't want to have to get an Xbox 360 in order to extend Media Center. Live Mesh was going in the right direction, and it gets cannabalized by Live Sync into a dumb folder syncing/remote access service. I remember early videos where one of the devs had put his phone and his car stereo into the mesh, and could then access his music in the cloud while driving. Why was this killed?

It's no wonder all of these higher-ups have been leaving. They're frustrated with the lack of motion shown by MS and move on to companies that actually listen to them. I don't even work for them, and I'm frustrated.