Great Example of Microsoft’s lack of taste

During the 1990′s, Steve Jobs was interviewed for a PBS special entitled “The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires”. During his interview with Robert Cringely, Jobs’ made this statement:

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”

I can think of no better example than this.

Sure, it’s the ad that’s cheesy. I haven’t used the software itself, so I can’t comment on its quality. But it speaks to the lack of control Microsoft has of its own image. Nothing even remotely this bad would ever come out of Cupertino under Jobs leadership. And if something this heinous was able to slip out of Apple, you can bet that whomever was responsible would be fired.

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