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Charlie Kindel (@ckindel)
- Twitter Bio:
- Created some cool stuff. Now creating more. Addicted to cars, soccer & skiing. Startup Founder, Angel, and Mentor. Check out MileLogr: http://milelogr.com
- Location:
- Bellevue, WA
- Website:
- http://ceklog.kindel.com
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - The young interns, some of the nation's best and brightest in technology, business and design, had plenty of enthusiastic words to describe their summer employer.
Fun. Cool. Special. A giant start-up. Revolutionizing the world. Facebook, perhaps? Or Twitter? Or Google?
Try Microsoft Corp: the company once derided as the "death star" of the technology business and lately thought of not so much as dangerous, but merely irrelevant, bureaucratic and dull.
"Microsoft feels cool again," said 22-year-old Gbenga Badipe, an electrical engineering student at Rice University,
Bill Gates would be the first to point out all the cases where Microsoft’s competitors made a key mistake that let Microsoft succeed. Office is perhaps the most notable example, where competitors’ reluctance to support Microsoft Windows took Word and Excel from second-tier status to leadership as customers shifted from DOS to Windows. Xbox 360 triumphed over the PS/3 because Sony created a platform that was both late to the market and too hard to develop for. Borland started a price war that Microsoft was better positioned to endure. Etc. That is why Microsoft historically keeps the pressure up even when its cause looks hopeless.
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