“Who Poked the Sleeping Dragon?” and Other Microsoft Metaphors

The incredibly low-resolution dragon from the Atari 2600 game "Adventure": "In A.D. 2010, dragon was awakening".

Who Poked the Sleeping Dragon? asks The Next Web in response to the changes in Microsoft and its offerings as of late, from Windows 7 to Internet Explorer 9 to Windows Phone 7. Frederic Lardinois of ReadWriteWeb posts on his personal tech blog, NewsGrange, that The Microsoft Tanker Has Turned and You Ignore It at Your Peril . TechCrunch’s resident Apple fanboy (he says so himself) MG Siegler titled a recent article Wow, With Windows Phone 7, Did Microsoft Actually Bring a Gun to a Gunfight? It’s interesting to see the sort of articles the tech pundits are cranking out these days about the company for which I work – and the metaphors they’re employing.

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