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As some of you may already know, Don Dodge was a former Microsoft “evangelist” who evidently had connections. The instant he announced being fired from Microsoft, it was featured as a prominent story on Techcrunch and other news venues. I for one would never have heard about him if he wasn’t fired.
Don Dodge
Amusingly, though probably not surprising, he wrote a blog post today highlighting four of Google’s offerings over Microsoft.
- Outlook vs Gmail
- Office Office [sic] 2007 vs Google Docs
- Windows Mobile 6.5 vs Google Android
- Internet Explorer vs Chrome
He says that it is the first time he has used these Google products now that he’s been hired by Google.
Apparently you can be a persuasive evangelist like Don Dodge knowing nothing about your competitor’s products; which is why you should ignore “evangelists”.
Having said that, I think people are being too hard on Don.
If you consider Don as a corporation himself, what makes this so different than if Dell switched to Linux because MS stopped subsidizing Windows, and Dell started extolling the virtues of Linux over Windows? None.
It is only because we are so ingrained into thinking that employees should be the thralls of their companies even after being fired while the company themselves have no qualms about treating their employees as a cost/benefit commodity. This is a double standard.
Don Dodge’s Marketing Blog Post
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The post was alright until he started bashing Office 2007. Nonsense. Google Docs is no way better than Office. So much cloud computing and i can’t even set a document’s line-spacing to 1.5 in Google Docs without editing the HTML code. lol.