Seece said:
How do you know that? 3. She Shook Things Up for WindowsMicrosoft saw very sluggish sales and poor reception for Windows Vista, and after her successes with Office, Larson-Green was transferred over to help reorganize the Windows team. According to an interview in The Telegraph from 2009. Larson-Green made fundamental changes to the engineering structure for Windows 7's creation, preventing engineers from being siloed off and making them interact with technologies that complimented their own projects. What Xbox fans should learn from this is that while Larson-Green hadn't worked on operating systems before Windows' launch, she adapted to her new surroundings quickly. "I'd been working on Office and had never worked on an operating system before. I spent a lot of time learning about the market, the challenges, the people on the team," she told the The Telegraph. |
Absoutely nothing suggests she cares or knows anything more about gaming than Don Matrix. And that's not much.
Look at her path in the company. It's all related to leadership and different divisions, typical corporate stuff but without any expertise in the field they put her in.
She might be a superb executive and knows how to lead people and run a business. But the negative thing with a leader that has no passion in its own products is that MS will remain out of touch with the market. We won't see any change in them trying to understand the market better or trying to earn longevity and trust among the people like Sony does.
In concrete terms this means Xbox will continue to jump on the latest bandwagon while implementing features nobody really cares about, and meanwhile sticking to the strategy of only focusing on a few key blockbuster titles, while the competition will work long-term continuing to build a genuine reputation, and a broad and sophisticated lineup of games.
