Yesterday I was a part of discussion at Techcrunch about upcoming premier of Microsoft Surface Pro. I would like to write something more according to this as the subject is very important to me and I think also for other Microsoft fans. My statement was simple. Microsoft wasn’t prepared to launch such product and simple example is that there’s no official Twitter of Facebook app. As you can see at Techcrunch many people said that there’re others solutions/app. That’s right. But still in my opinion missing Twitter client is something desperate for me… Twitter or Facebook are “must have” apps. Also I was wondering what’s the main goal for Microsoft in case of Surface? I am not sure, I also think that MS also doesn’t know… Simple question. What’s Surface? Is it a tablet? Or maybe ultrabook? I think that mix of Metro and desktop was stupid idea. If I want tablet I need application which works perfect with fingers – that’s the Twitter case. But If you want laptop you need desktop application, without any Metro screens. For me fact that I have to go always trough Metro to my desktop apps it’s stupid. Why I don’t have a choice??? I always heard that if something is dedicated to too many things in fact it’s not good for anything. I think that Microsoft is shooting at two birds, but they missed both… First bird it’s tablet. They need something what could be replacement for iPad, something with application store. And the second bird is desktop. Huge money comes to Microsoft from desktop market: Windows, Office, Internet Explored, games, thousands of desktop application. They can’t just cut off the rope. But It seems that they missed both target in fact. I think that in next few months we’ll hear that Microsoft made some wrong choices, they were listing to the clients and they will got other way… It’s sad to me that Microsoft lost their vision. They are scared that they lose huge mobile market and try so hard to get their share, but in the result it’s pathetic. They use power of Marketing (they have very good one…) to sell a product. But they don’t care about clients or IT guys who spend money/time for their product after a few months. They just abandon them. For example. How they can sold Windows Phone 7.5 a few weeks before new system (Windows 8) without possibility to upgrade? Why just forgot about developers/companies which make investments in SilverLight or XNA?
I am really big fan of Microsoft, but I think they lost their vision. Without changes at the top of company – Why Steve Ballmer is still SEO of MS? – Microsoft will lost the ground year by year without fresh blood. And money is not everything…
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