User:Ryan Norton/MSSources

This a collection of sources and comments about them meant to be in the used in the Microsoft article, it's not deliberate link hoarding, it's just a collection of sources

"Bad"

 * http://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/gates.htm - SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION interview with bill gates
 * http://www.startupgallery.org/gallery/story.php?ii=20 - New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, but this part was(initially?) funded by gates and/or allen which might comprimise it, not even mentioning museums are a gray area in WP:RS
 * http://pctimeline.info/ibmpc/ - perfect, sites sources, but just a website, would have to verify the old nigh-impossible sources myslef
 * http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/02/seattle_times_microsoft_tax_do.php - about why seattleweekly didn't air a story about the goverment "bailing out" Microsoft

Good

 * http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/wired40_microsoft.html - for channel 9


 * - A book that's actually good, really good, but gets Windows NT 3.0 wrong (3.0 never existed, 3.1 was the first version ;p) and is unfortunately self-published.
 * http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/studios_v_cablevision/law_prof_brief_asymmetry.pdf - it's in a court case, and in various non-student papers. Looks like a green light.


 * http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/apple-beats-microsoft-not-so-fast-fanboys-692510 - apple vs. MS numbers

Business Culture

 * http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/the-real-question-how-to-keep-microsoft-on-the-transparency-track/353 - Blogs & transparency
 * http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_39/b3952001.htm - 2005 report about employees leaving for google and the payment methods on a bell curve (ick?)
 * http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/500-words-into-the-future-10014052/the-google-culture-microsoft-doesnt-get-risk-taking-10015259/ - on google vs. MS culture
 * http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/microsoft-destroyed-development-culture-weisman - how MS "destroyed" the culture of FASA when it acquired it
 * http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,533852,00.html - woman managers etc.
 * http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/doubleclick_and_microsofts_thrift_culture.html - how MS missed the doubleclick deals (BG gets a mention)
 * http://www.itworld.com/business/57926/tony-scott-microsofts-culture-innovation?page=0%2C1 - interview about the culture with the CIO
 * http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-250070.html - the start of the internal cutbacks on perks.... (2000)
 * http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21183 - a (slightly) more positive from the game industry side
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/technology/05compute.html - yeah, MS vs. Apple again
 * http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/05/25/is_microsoft_relevant - title says it all.... good source
 * http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-success-largely-responsible-for-departure-of-microsoft-executives-report/44470 - why bach was fired by ballmer
 * http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/microsoft/stories/1999/microsoft050799.htm - PAC contributions circa 1999
 * http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/microsoft_pr.html - Breakdown of Gates during the US trial
 * http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2008020208_microsoft27.html - More on Gates management
 * http://www.krsaborio.net/microsoft/research/1989/0423.htm - the early "velvet sweatshop" report
 * http://www.docstoc.com/docs/8843163/How-Microsoft-Builds-Software - How microsoft built software circa 1997
 * http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jun2001/nf20010613_081.htm - Early Ballmer interview (mostly concerning accessibility [sp] but there's a bit there)
 * http://www.seattlepi.com/business/bras11.shtml - brass works starts on tablet PC for MS....
 * http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 - Basically sums up how Microsoft's profits come from Windows and Office but the teams in the company are often at war with each other and even sabotage products. Brass's account of his retirement (2010)
 * http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/30059/20100622/five-reasons-why-microsoft-cant-compete-and-steve-ballmer-isnt-one-of-them.htm - Why Microsoft can't compete because basically the control the US has after the antitrust case (editorial obv.)
 * http://www.nzzfolio.ch/www/d80bd71b-b264-4db4-afd0-277884b93470/showarticle/77901e0e-1d33-4840-b29c-fe7f0f15c632.aspx - A mild hint at Microsoft Puzzle Hunt, at least it does compare it to the MIT version.... need to find more real references.


 * Evangelists
 * http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/02/how_to_get_laid_off_the_don_do.html - don dodge firing etc... lots of sources on this
 * http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-6165381-7.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news - et al. Gutenburg's three week stint as one

Timeline of Sorts

 * Founding-~1997 - Focuses on permanent employees and hiring straight out of college
 * 1997-2000 - Contracting, massive mergers, temp employees, H1Bs catch up; shift here?
 * 2000- - Windows/Office division basically stops hiring permanent employees, shifts to tertiary projects and startup+deathmarch-style approach?

User Culture
Should be something about how users view Microsoft products as tools while Apple users tend to be "richer" and cutting edge.... or something.
 * http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2008/04/what-microsoft-could-learn-from-apple.ars/2 - getting warm....
 * http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/news/2006/12/72295 - typical conservative op-ed about windows users think
 * http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/05/why_doesnt_micr.html - Why doesn't MS have a cult religion - PERFECT
 * http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2007/05/good-question-where-are-the-ms-fanboys.ars - comment on above article...
 * http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1051666/apple-fanboys-upset-microsoft-adverts - controversy about offensive ads
 * http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/microsofts-denial-over-google-could-spell-disaster/1923
 * http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/paul-thurrotts-wininfo/Poised-to-Overtake-Microsoft-Apple-Faces-Regulatory-Scrutiny.aspx - perfect, DOJ and FCC inves. apple
 * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/02/love_to_hate_microsoft/ - very recent remarks on an article (2 in 1...) about the lack of enthusiasm about some products compared to other companies.

Timeline of Sorts

 * Founding-1997 - Microsoft focuses primary on developers (think steve ballmer shouting the word over and over); early books focus on this
 * 1997-200X - "Evangalism is War" powerpoint presentation and accomponying docs surface from Comes v. Microsoft revealing a switch from a focus on developers to totally on Microsoft, instead repositioning and trying to pit competitors against each other and making Win32 cross-platform and instead of competing simply collecting royalty fees. Source: "CTRL-ALT-DECEIT" from Harper... somehow
 * 200X- - .Net surfaces, being built into Vista+; Microsoft helps Mono. Aims?

Hints

 * When searching for user culture, one isn't going to get much with the traditional "cult" and "fan" names, try to more subtle and unconventional business terms such as "enthusiast" or "advocate".

Other

 * http://www.marketwatch.com/story/microsoft-stunt-sends-wrong-message - Rare commentary outside of the usuals on MS vista tv ads

Selected removals from 3rd peer review

 * Groklaw... way too sketchy of a source for the claim.... need more, even if it references a couple RS, it doesn't for the whole article - I may have put this in myself a long long time ago though ;p


 * After taking the trouble to write that decided it's a bit too nascent and violates my own comment about description of future events a little.


 * Something else I wrote for the intro, but ended up deciding it was unneccesary.


 * Removed due to concerns about the article promoting LGBT stuff..... which is sort of correct, so we'll stick to the fundamentals.


 * Anothor one I wrote. Mildly interesting but after consideration follows the "unneccesary detail" (sp) part, is impossible to keep up to date - and the source is an archived webpage.


 * Business culture stuff removed due to sourcing concerns (first paragraph has books without page numbers, for instance) and the fact that it's horribly outdated. Would be nice to have though and properly dated.


 * References

TODO

 * User culture in the DOS/XENIX and Windows 1.0->98 era - according to articles there were a lot of enthusiasts/cults (sp), can't seem to find much on it now though, and google searches keep leading back to wikipedia mirroring sites (lol?). Gonna need to comb through google books and the local library for this one perhaps.
 * Microsoft Puzzle Hunt and FYIFV sources.
 * EVANGELISTS - HIRED/PAID, ISTARTEDSOMETHING/OLDNEWTHING