Jim Allchin, Co-Presidente, Microsoft

Jim Allchin, tercer más importante ejecutivo en Microsoft escribió esto el 7 de enero de 2004 a Bill Gates:

"No estoy seguro de cómo la empresa perdió de vista lo que es importante para nuestros clientes de negocios o de consumidor final, pero en mi opinión perdimos el rumbo. Creo que nuestros empleados no saben qué es no tener errores de programación, [...] qué es seguridad [...] Yo compraría una Mac si no trabajara para Microsoft" ---Prueba No. 7264, juicio antimonopolio del Estado de Iowa contra Microsoft (Comes vs. Microsoft, Inc.), declaración del co-abogado del demandante, Richard Hagstrom(*).

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(*) Texto original: "Exhibit 7264. Almost three years ago, on January 7, 2004, Jim Allchin, the senior executive at Microsoft, sent an E-mail to Microsoft's top two executives, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, and the subject was losing our way.
Mr. Allchin says, I'm not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our customers, both business and home, the most, but in my view we lost our way. I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems our customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that does not translate into great products. He goes on to say, I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.”"