A ray of hope !

Finally, something's happening on my application. At the very end of the season, I get an interview invite from Tepper! Ah, it feels so good after all these months of writing and re-writing the essays. But I guess, it's just half-done.

Interestingly, Tepper is the only school where I didn't "fall in love" instantly. The more I learnt, the more I realized that Tepper and I make a rather good fit than most of my other choices.  The opportunities that Tepper (and CMU) provide in technology entrepreneurship are much better than what some of the very top schools provide. I could actually write down my whole "why Tepper" essay on this subject, as that's I'm focused on.

Anyways, I'm going to the interview without any expectations and have to see what happens on March 15.

Just a short poem about what I went through -
(disclaimer: I'm no poet !)


I take my notebook
And give it a tense look


Oh, I wait and wait
Feeling my pulse rate


"where art thou", I shout in a archaic tone
"Don't give up" says a deep voice, I realize as my own


Tired as hell, I go to bed
Waiting to discover what lay ahead


Finally, there I see a ray of hope
Excited I am like I'm on dope!

Microsoft has heard it !

As I was talking about the plight of MS in the mobile market, it seems to have taken the necessary steps forward   in the right direction with Windows Mobile 7!

The number 7 seems lucky (though just a bit) for Microsoft, with Windows 7 quickly overshadowing the Vista disaster and now Windows Mobile 7 trying to find its rightful place in the market.

Not sure if this is just a demo or we'll be seeing a lot of it in the coming months, but here it is

The power of Google :P

Well, what can I say !

Article about Microsoft - NY Times

I just happened to read the following article in NY times - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html and I'm certainly appalled by their division culture.

I'm certainly not a fan of Microsoft, but I respect it for setting some standards in the industry. And it surely hurts a bit seeing a company like that succumbing to internal politics. I see a lot of new technology demos from Microsoft, but never the real product. Not even a buzz in magazines that rave about Google n Apple. With Microsoft failing in every other product (remember Vista?), I dont know what Ballmer is planning other than ridiculing other companies. There's an intense war on the mobile front, and Microsoft seems to be trying to outbeat Google with Bing and relish on Windows and Office. More recently, Motorola Droid was hailed not as an iPhone-killer, but as a Windows Mobile killer. Is any one even buying a Windows Mobile these days? When was the last time Microsoft created a killer app?

With these kind of setbacks, I wonder where Microsoft sees itself in the next 10years. If the kind of innovation-killing mentioned in the article keeps happening, MS could become a "company that is too big to fail". And as the author rightly noted, it could eventually become a GM or Chrysler.

What do you think?