cNet property news.com ran a great story today about Microsoft’s inability to adequately research their target audiences. Entitled How Eight Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions it is an extremely interesting read. Germans have a word for this, lustigmacabre. “Lustig” means funny. The rest you can guess. And this is nothing if not lustigmacabre. Especially amusing is the MS executive’s quote, “Some of our employees, however bright they may be, have only a hazy idea about the rest of the world.” If you mean “sheltered geeks with no social skills,” just say so. And a majority of users still trust this company to get things right. Why, exactly?
If you’re thinking you want to bail on Microsoft, KDE 3.3 was released today
Thanks to pal crarko for the heads-up on this article.