tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post3010398536200323405..comments2023-12-31T02:16:32.747-08:00Comments on 1-800-MAGIC: Back to MicrosoftSergey Solyanikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03811112928687191837noreply@blogger.comBlogger195125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-81774804312048944302011-11-24T07:13:34.147-08:002011-11-24T07:13:34.147-08:00Awesome postAwesome postfreelance web designers in hyderabadhttp://www.freelancehyderabad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-75823927497481587592011-11-10T01:13:52.889-08:002011-11-10T01:13:52.889-08:00yeah. why did you left Googe? Google is such a nic...yeah. why did you left Googe? Google is such a nice place to work with. I saw their office all i can say was "WOW"diets that workhttp://www.topweightlossreviews.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-16259722332009597742011-10-20T02:55:18.284-07:002011-10-20T02:55:18.284-07:00Really intelligent piece of writing buddy, keep it...Really intelligent piece of writing buddy, keep it up and I will keep tweeting your blog posts for you so you can get the readers you deserve!joomla websiteshttp://www.joomla-web-designer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-7425653631354187772011-09-28T06:07:40.075-07:002011-09-28T06:07:40.075-07:00Good thought my fren..U really made the best point...Good thought my fren..U really made the best points regarding ur decision and ideaolgy.web design companyhttp://www.web-designs-company.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-59413992648431046712011-08-31T16:19:09.022-07:002011-08-31T16:19:09.022-07:00Are you sure people will pay a single penny to use...Are you sure people will pay a single penny to use Hotmail?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-31278422904637722872011-07-21T23:53:09.727-07:002011-07-21T23:53:09.727-07:00The deal though is that Google has decided they do...The deal though is that Google has decided they don't need to do these things. Probably not for the reasons that Sergey thinks. It seems to be a common Silicon Valley issue. I learned engineering outside of the Valley, where we were developing things with our own money and had to damn well make sure it got done and done right because if it was not, it was our own money out of pocket. When I moved here to the Valley I was aghast at the development practices, or lack thereof, here. Things that I was accustomed to doing in eight months with a team of four took two years and a team of fifty to do in the Valley. From what I can tell it's a combination of things. First, the influence of what I can only call anarchistic thought in the Valley, which says that process is an imposition of The Man and thus to be avoided. Secondly, institutional arrogance -- "we don't have to do that here in the Valley because we're smarter than everybody else." Thirdly, individual arrogance -- "I'm so good that I don't need to be managed." The result: Product that is late to market, buggy, does not fulfill customer requirements, and eventually the company goes out of business. <a href="http://www.zco.com/digital-marketing-services.aspx" rel="nofollow">Digital Marketing Services </a> | <a href="http://www.zco.com/video-marketing.aspx" rel="nofollow">Video Marketing </a> | <a href="http://www.zco.com/app-marketing-services.aspx" rel="nofollow">App Marketing </a>App Marketinghttp://www.zco.com/app-marketing-services.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-20143766432285605202011-07-08T10:07:11.352-07:002011-07-08T10:07:11.352-07:00I could tell how great you are in your field of in...I could tell how great you are in your field of interest. You could relate in each detail very well. Thank you for spending a time on sharing such informative writings to us. I will bookmark your page and looking forward to read some more of your writings soon.car title loans arizonahttp://www.cartitleloans.net/locations/car-title-loans-arizona.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-24073569519167053732011-06-10T11:08:00.436-07:002011-06-10T11:08:00.436-07:00From Google to Microsoft? wow, i know must be kept...From Google to Microsoft? wow, i know must be kept busy, but apart from that, you're living the dream!Sunburn Treatmenthttp://menshealthinsight.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-20190312537713707472011-04-12T22:31:21.817-07:002011-04-12T22:31:21.817-07:00If you want to see the mind blowing article with r...If you want to see the mind blowing article with real facts and figures, this has really tremendous impacts on readers.Education Agenthttp://www.hsconsultants.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-66417844336602348082010-07-14T04:17:57.725-07:002010-07-14T04:17:57.725-07:00Great post! I am just starting out in community ma...Great post! I am just starting out in community management/marketing media and trying to learn how to do it well - resources like this article are incredibly helpful. As our company is based in the US, it?s all a bit new to us. The example above is something that I worry about as well, how to show your own genuine enthusiasm and share the fact that your product is useful in that case.Term papershttp://www.ghostpapers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-76935635945406567132010-06-24T05:17:01.419-07:002010-06-24T05:17:01.419-07:00Great post, Sergey -
Your solid examples of peer ...Great post, Sergey -<br /><br />Your solid examples of peer reviews and multiple opportunities for intra- and inter-team collaboration are great takeaways.Mobile Application Developmenthttp://www.zco.com/mobile-app-development.aspxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-11621141390429022022010-02-15T20:11:38.499-08:002010-02-15T20:11:38.499-08:00Dear Mr. Sergey Solynik
Hello. My name is Akemi Mi...Dear Mr. Sergey Solynik<br />Hello. My name is Akemi Miyamoto, a freelance journalist living in Japan.<br /><br />We are preparing a cover story about "Google, the future of search and it's culture" for Weekly ASCII magazine which will be published on March 28th (the article will be 69 pages total).<br /><br />Weekly ASCII is the most popular computer magazine in Japan, sold about 150,000 copies every week.<br /><br />We're going to visit Google and Microsoft (for Bing search) next week.<br />But to make the article deeper, I like to hear the voices of ex-Googlers, too.<br /><br />So I'd like to beg your favor to meet me when I'm in United States. Or If it's difficult, I like to have interview using Skype.<br />Because your carrier is very rare, you have experience in Google and Microsoft.<br /><br />If you like to know my past works, I'm willing to send you some copy of articles, which including Google campus' visit in 2006, an interview with Mr. Philip Rosedale in Linden Lab, an interview with Mr.Libin Phil, CEO of Evernote ( you can see it online, too. http://weekly.ascii.jp/elem/000/000/013/13442/) etc.<br /><br />Thank you for reading my message.<br />I hope I will hear from you.<br /><br />Akemi Miyamoto<br />akemanga@gmail.com<br />twitter: AkeMangaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-26722211050890333772010-01-08T05:43:56.040-08:002010-01-08T05:43:56.040-08:00Affiliate Marketing is a performance based sales t...Affiliate Marketing is a performance based sales technique used by companies to expand their reach into the internet at low costs. This commission based program allows affiliate marketers to place ads on their websites or other advertising efforts such as email distribution in exchange for payment of a small commission when a sale results. <br /><br />www.onlineuniversalwork.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05819924837927570399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-58537155150238611722010-01-07T02:05:27.424-08:002010-01-07T02:05:27.424-08:00Affiliate Marketing is a performance based sales t...Affiliate Marketing is a performance based sales technique used by companies to expand their reach into the internet at low costs. This commission based program allows affiliate marketers to place ads on their websites or other advertising efforts such as email distribution in exchange for payment of a small commission when a sale results. <br /><br />www.onlineuniversalwork.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-19039736571570870562009-10-13T05:56:17.131-07:002009-10-13T05:56:17.131-07:00though i know the majority of your life is under f...though i know the majority of your life is under flourescent lights beathing filtered air, so maybe it doesn't make any differencer4 nintendohttp://www.r4-ds.esnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-54240713950007858642009-08-28T08:00:20.700-07:002009-08-28T08:00:20.700-07:00You have shared you experience so effectively. I w...You have shared you experience so effectively. I was not able to stop reading it. My Blog : <a href="http://www.desigirls.us/" rel="dofollow" rel="nofollow">earn money</a> chao!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-87318736628555909792009-04-23T02:26:00.000-07:002009-04-23T02:26:00.000-07:00Thanks Sergey for this excellent post. It was a g...Thanks Sergey for this excellent post. It was a great read and provided me with a great insight to Google and some different approaches to getting things done.Simon Gianoutsoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14106033771379259921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-29895692399519224482009-02-19T18:05:00.000-08:002009-02-19T18:05:00.000-08:00Your solid examples of peer reviews and multiple o...Your solid examples of peer reviews and multiple opportunities for intra- and inter-team collaboration are great takeaways.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-68414179988699471732009-01-19T15:47:00.000-08:002009-01-19T15:47:00.000-08:00Great blog, thanks for sharing. :)Great blog, thanks for sharing. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-12187577874900100552008-09-22T16:46:00.000-07:002008-09-22T16:46:00.000-07:00Didn't Home Server have that insanely horrible bug...Didn't Home Server have that insanely horrible bug that corrupted the filesystem if you edit files on the server? <BR/><BR/>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946676<BR/><BR/>the bug was found in dec '07, shortly after you left microsoft, and wasn't fixed until july '08.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-46661878195405737782008-09-19T11:38:00.000-07:002008-09-19T11:38:00.000-07:00Let's check this block of your text:"On the other ...Let's check this block of your text:<BR/><BR/><I>"On the other hand, I was using Google software - a lot of it - in the last year, and <BR/>slick as it is, there's just too much of it that is regularly broken. It seems like every week 10% of all the features are broken in one or the other browser. And it's a different 10% every week - the old bugs are getting fixed, the new ones introduced."</I><BR/><BR/>As a Microsoft addicted, wouldn't you felt like home with this buggy behaviour? :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-49623022772725037142008-09-02T17:53:00.000-07:002008-09-02T17:53:00.000-07:00This is probably fine for free software, but I alw...<I>This is probably fine for free software, but I always laugh when people tell me that Google Docs is viable competition to Microsoft Office. If it is, that is only true for the occasional users who would not buy Office anyway. Google as an organization is not geared - culturally - to delivering enterprise class reliability to its user applications.</I><BR/><BR/>it may be unfair, but i always laugh when i consider microsoft's inability to implement <B>paint</B>, <B>notepad</B> and <B>write</B> as usable applications, despite their functionality being almost entirely located in system wide control libraries. nothing on god's earth could inspire me to use ms office. <BR/><BR/>and unfortunately, open office is a waste of millions of hours of open source coding becos it aspires to emulate mso. 'scoop the cream not the scum' as one blogger had it..<BR/><BR/>the truth is, i still use wordperfect 5.1 for any serious writing project. its fast, stable and easy to automate. it's also totally adequate for large documents. the end of effective document management software was signalled by wordperfect's doomed attempt to transition to windows.<BR/><BR/>and why is windows software so bad? becos its business model has resulted in binary distribution being extended to component level and in opaque, idiosyncratic data formats, crippling all attempts to provide robust automation or interoperability.<BR/><BR/>if microsoft ever adopted honest engineering, and left marketing out of r&d, it might have some value in the coming decades, but as it is, i think the platform neutrality epitomized by google's model will prove to be a relentless tide, against which the smurfs of redmond will be as powerless as king canute.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-41761093889675899802008-09-01T16:56:00.000-07:002008-09-01T16:56:00.000-07:00@BadTuxYou see leaves but not the tree.Hint 1: Eco...@BadTux<BR/>You see leaves but not the tree.<BR/><BR/>Hint 1: Ecosystem.<BR/><BR/>Hint 2: Schools and VCs are all part of the ecosystem.<BR/><BR/>Hint 3: Why Stanford and UCB alumni didn't want to relocate? Refer to Hint 1.<BR/><BR/>Hint 4: It’s extremely difficult to replicate an ecosystem.<BR/><BR/>Hint 5: Get an aquarium which may help you to understand what is an ecosystem.<BR/><BR/>PS: I hope your codes are not as bloated as your writing skill, but I’m done with youAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-3477014965253220662008-09-01T01:12:00.000-07:002008-09-01T01:12:00.000-07:00Actually I have quite a clue. The 20th anniversary...Actually I have quite a clue. The 20th anniversary of my first commercial software product recently passed. Regarding the Silicon Valley, to create a Silicon Valley you need two world-class universities in the same metropolitan area. I suggest you go back and look at Fairchild Semiconductor (the beginning of the Silicon Valley when you add up the Fairchildren that sprung out of it) and ask why it started here and not somewhere else. Guess what -- it was Stanford and UCB alumni who didn't want to relocate.<BR/><BR/>The biggest thing keeping the Silicon Valley going right now is the fact that eventually, everybody who wants to do something innovative ends up here. I was paid a fairly significant sum to relocate here, and once here, it's just too easy to get a job to bother going anywhere else. Multiply me by 200,000 and you have a gigantic work force. A work force which, in my professional opinion, is a management nightmare, but if you're looking to start a business you have the Sand Hill money crowd and a ready-made workforce all in one location. <BR/><BR/>In marketing terms, what the Silicon Valley has is an "early mover advantage". If you're first to market you have a significant advantage over later entrants to the market -- you've already snatched up the top talent in your field, you already have the mindshare, you have the investors coming to you rather than you having to go to the investors. Unfortunately, over the years all this money has made the Valley really, really sloppy... things are not getting done in a timely manner and they're getting released half-baked because people think process is old-skool and not what you do in the Valley. Outside the Valley we didn't have the luxury of releasing product late and buggy, because it was our own money, not investor money, that we used to create the product. But the Valley treats investor money like free money (a former employer recently went under after burning through $40 million dollars in six months time), and the result... it's sloppy. <BR/><BR/>I find it hilarious that green as grass Googledrones would accuse someone with over twenty years experience in this industry of "not knowing what he talks about", but I'm not surprised. Unwarranted delusions of grandeur and arrogance are not things that the Silicon Valley has a shortage of... especially when it comes to Google.BadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3554166144204741789.post-33798077547947962662008-09-01T00:02:00.000-07:002008-09-01T00:02:00.000-07:00@BadTux:I don’t know why are you so upset about?Fi...@BadTux:<BR/><BR/>I don’t know why are you so upset about?<BR/><BR/>Firstly, your company is not representative enough for other companies, and I was speaking as a senior management consultant who has enough experience of corporate culture. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, you should pay proper attentions to the key word which is “flexibility” and I made no reference to smaller companies would not have product roadmaps or strategies; it’s just they are more flexible in terms of changing those strategies.<BR/><BR/>As for your comments, “The only reason the Silicon Valley is such a hotbed of innovation is because there's just so many people and so much money in the Valley.”, you probably have no idea that many countries have done the same trying to mimic the success of the Valley, unsuccessfully. <BR/><BR/>You have no clues about what are you talking about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com