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Topic	The origin of Xbox is pretty fascinating
Darmik 02/13/18 12:56:03 AM #83:	A Microsoft employee called St John made one hell of a splash. He was a genius guy who figured stuff out quickly and told things how he saw them. One day he was called by the press. He wasn't briefed on how to handle the press. He told them that Windows was an interior distribution platform. Bill Gates sent out a company wide emails to all of his executives and was absolutely furious. He called him an idiot that didn't know what he was talking about. St John was convinced he would be fired and typed up the following email. To: Bill Gates and everybody else on this FKING thread Bill Im really sorry if I let you down, I really screwed up, I had no idea how to handle that situation and I said some really stupid things. I absolutely understand if this is my last day at the company. Obviously even if I felt that our publishing technology was obviously inferior to Apples I shouldnt have acknowledged it outside the company. That said, you dont really believe that Windows is competitive with Apple do you? I dont know who youve been listening to but I absolutely know what Im talking about and Windows is a complete disaster as a publishing platform compared to Apple and absolutely everybody in the industry you hired me to represent knows it. You dont have a single publishing expert here at the company; every single person I have met related to publishing in the technology teams is little more than a 300dpi HP laser printer expert. My credibility with that community wouldnt stand a snowballs chance in hell with that community if you expect me to take the position that Windows is great when everybody but apparently you KNOW otherwise. He then typed out every single issue. Bill Gates sent out another email to his executives. This new guy we hired to be our Publishing Evangelist tells me you people have been lying to me all these years about how great our publishing technology, which has been responsible for our abysmal performance against Apple in this space all along. Id like to know how the issues hes raised are being addressed by your teams going forward. What a mic drop moment --- Kind Regards, Darmik <cite>Darmik posted [p:895983989] in The origin... [t:76288422]...</cite> <quote>A Microsoft employee called St John made one hell of a splash. He was a genius guy who figured stuff out quickly and told things how he saw them. One day he was called by the press. He wasn't briefed on how to handle the press. He told them that Windows was an interior distribution platform. Bill Gates sent out a company wide emails to all of his executives and was absolutely furious. He called him an idiot that didn't know what he was talking about. St John was convinced he would be fired and typed up the following email. <quote>To: Bill Gates and everybody else on this FKING thread Bill Im really sorry if I let you down, I really screwed up, I had no idea how to handle that situation and I said some really stupid things. I absolutely understand if this is my last day at the company. Obviously even if I felt that our publishing technology was obviously inferior to Apples I shouldnt have acknowledged it outside the company. That said, you dont really believe that Windows is competitive with Apple do you? I dont know who youve been listening to but I absolutely know what Im talking about and Windows is a complete disaster as a publishing platform compared to Apple and absolutely everybody in the industry you hired me to represent knows it. You dont have a single publishing expert here at the company; every single person I have met related to publishing in the technology teams is little more than a 300dpi HP laser printer expert. My credibility with that community wouldnt stand a snowballs chance in hell with that community if you expect me to take the position that Windows is great when everybody but apparently you KNOW otherwise. </quote> He then typed out every single issue. Bill Gates sent out another email to his executives. <quote>This new guy we hired to be our Publishing Evangelist tells me you people have been lying to me all these years about how great our publishing technology, which has been responsible for our abysmal performance against Apple in this space all along. Id like to know how the issues hes raised are being addressed by your teams going forward. </quote> What a mic drop moment --- Kind Regards, Darmik</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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