Microsoft..... love it or hate it...

I think Microsoft is the best example of a person, entity, company or whatever you want to make an example out of it, that generates pure and simple envy.... Yes, you heard it.... E N V Y... You do not have to like someone to recognize he´s a genius. This guys started as programmers of a set of rules or instruction codes that helped us, stupid humans, to control a very simple and primitive computer. The amazing thing is that leyend speaks that when they sold the program to the guys that made the computers, they didn´t even have it finished, hahahaha.... I don´t pretend to give you an explanation of the mission, vision, business model, etc... (you can get those directly in Microsoft´s page or look for the blogs on my classmates, some of them just love to explain business models)

But what I would love to say about their business model is the passion when they created their first modo, believe, mission statement or whatever... "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft Software¨... well this guys believe it and guess what, preatty damn close, don´t you think?

They started out with an Operating System, evolved and evolved and evolved, and after analyzing the needs of people they came up with a suite of products that really made sense, and if you stop and think about it, you can see that it was based on the most simple ideas and personal needs... A SW to create documents, alias text editor, a very big and usefull program that combined the potential of a calculator and the usage of texting, a data base manager, amongst others... if you see, this where very everyday common needs.

To make a long story short, this guys have been criticized, have been the target of numerous lawsuits, accused of practically being the devil on earth... but guess what, they are still here. Microsoft is in my opinion the best example for my too eager peers at IE, that disregard any enterpreneural idea just because ¨That already exists¨or ¨there is too much competition...¨ This guys, in my opinion demonstrate that you do not have to have the ¨BEST¨product, that you can compete in a tank full of sharks, that you can work against all odds, and still be succesfull.