Ex-Microsoft exec: It’s a wasteland

Microsoft is a huge tech-wasteland, an atrophying hulk of an American icon not unlike the Sears department store chain, a former executive at the software giant says in an upcoming report.

“I see Microsoft as technology’s answer to Sears,” the executive, Kurt Massey, said in an interview that will hit newsstands next week.

“In the 40s, 50s, and 60s, Sears had it nailed. It was top-notch, but now it’s just a barren wasteland. And that’s Microsoft,” said Massey. “The company just isn’t cool anymore.”

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