OpenBytes

Openbytes is definitely one strong evidence to my question of how Microsoft can create passionate emotions within people, except it is the exact opposite. Tim, or, the Goblin, or Tim (Goblin), is definitely on the extreme side if all the people in the world is put onto a scale based on their love/hate towards Microsoft. He gives Microsoft no remorse whatsoever, bashing on every aspect of it; yes, I mean every aspect. This can be easily seems from two of his posts, “Windows declining market share – 6% drop for the product that gave you the BSOD” and “‘Me too!’ Microsoft gives social networking a go?”

For the people none familiar with the term of BSOD, Google it! I am not kidding, I just Googled it myself and found that it means “Blue Screen of Death”. From the title I can see that Tim, the Goblin, is aiming his post towards a more technical oriented audience, or else he could have just said, Windows. The other title of “Me Too” is trying to say this issue in a mocking tone; he is pretending to be Microsoft who is like a loner want a piece of everything.

If you think putting BSOD to reference Windows in a mocking way is bad enough, Tim comes up with more lines to humiliate Microsoft to no end. He started listing all the failures of Microsoft in the past few years, including the not so popular Windows Phone 7, its browser Internet Explorer, unpopular search engine Bing, and then stated that “Windows, one of its flag-ship products suffered a 6% drop in the fourth quarter of 2011”. Wow, what an way to beat on a dead horse. He seems to favorite this technique and used it repeatedly over and over again in the other post too.

He doesn’t stop there. He was prepared to fend off the retaliations of the so-called “Microsoft Advocates who infest the newsgroups, who engage in personal attacks“ by stating “Buit wait”. This transition indicates that he understood the readers would start to have counter arguments by that point in the post, buy he is essentially telling these people to shut up and listen.

To sum up all the bashing that he has done, he even states that “there is a hint of deja-vu here”, pointing out that all the failures of Microsoft are the results of chasing after the leaders in each market; “Bing is trying to catchup with Google, WP7 is trying to catch up to Android and Apple phones,...” and he describes these attempts as merely as “flinging mud at the wall in the hope something will stick”. Microsoft, the giant in the industry, is being described as some little kid from the hood playing with mud in the ghetto. And he further describes the “patent suing” move made by Microsoft as a little bully in the industry who just want to lay back and collect money without “trying to compete with its own products”.

Tim is waiting on that “when the once ‘mighty’ Microsoft will roll over and admit defeat” instead of trying to catch up on different areas or bullying other companies. He also questions Microsoft’s motive in investing a social network since it has been a major investor and strategic partner with Facebook. However, he believes that this once mighty giant would not go down without a fight, especially with its “war-chest of cash”, indicating that Microsoft has a larger reserve for fighting.