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Dave Stutz's Parting Advice To Microsoft
thasmudyan writes "Like probably many others I followed the recent link to Heise only to get a much more interesting story than the one about Mozilla/OpenOffice: Dave Stutz, an influencial guy at Microsoft, is resigning his position. He posted an open letter to his ex-employer and this rest of the world, explaining what MS is doing wrong in his opinion. I thought it made an interesting read, maybe Open Source projects should consider some of the key points (as MS seems to be too slow to adapt, it may be good time to move faster than 'the industry')." (Read this Slashdot post from 2001 to see an interesting interview with Stutz about "shared source" and .NET.)
Visit TheOpenCd.org project burn copies for you and for any businesses or schools you know. each copy you give away is 4-500 dollars Microsoft does not make or hold people in a strangelhold.
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http://www.theopencd.org/mirrors.php
the ISO is about 300 megs or if you want Office alone
get it at:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/1.0.2
Well, he is not so much telling them to embrace open source, but to borrow from them.
More specifically, he thinks Microsoft needs to stop looking over it's shoulder and actually invent and innovate, intead of maintaining the status quo.
He is also saying that Microsoft has not yet realized that software is nearing the end of its life as a shrinkwrapped-box product. It is quickly becoming just a commodity, and part of an overall package.
One other point he made is that the One-Size-Fits-All approach does not always work anymore - i.e., people don't need a whole Office Suite, or a whole Windows platform for some things. They may just want one little piece of it.
Overall, a pretty good read, nothing ground-breaking or anything.
If you had nuts on your chin, would they be chin nuts?
... also a very nice collection of free software for Windows. It's what I use, and I've been very happy with it.
:)
Plus the mascot is cute.
Which you can't. BASIC was an academic teaching language developed at Dartmouth College.
Bill just wrote a propriatary interpreter.
KFG
I work at Microsoft, David Stutz was influential. He was the driving force behind the closest Microsoft has come to Open Source with his efforts on the Shared Source CLI. Your post is uninformed garbage.
Disclaimer: The above comments do not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. They are solely my opinion.
Microsoft Research ?
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The sins of Microsoft for charging big money for crap like Windows ME deserves a class-action lawsuit. You could argue Windows 98 was not much better than Windows 95.
In the linux world, how dare RedHat charge for their shipping of each version of RedHat. All they do is add new versions of packages and maybe change the kernel. (That's all sarcasm, btw. And consider RedHat as the archetype commercial linux distro.)
There are plenty of costs associated with managing releases from a company standpoint and Apple has been very generous in its updating of Mac OS X. We got disk journaling as a freebie, as an example. With Jaguar, maybe Apple's mistake was not manipulating people with marketing. Should they have called it "Mac OS Y"? Would that make you feel better about spending money? Or are the new features and performance what you want to spend money on?
"Christensen obselescence" refers to Clayton Christensen's book: "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail". Christensen is a professor at the Harvard Business school. He is a renowned expert on disruptive technologies, which is really what the Innovator's dilemma is all about, and thus, the reference to the Internet and Open Source.
But, getting the two confused is understandable, they are both BYU grads. :)
They developed the "digital ink" concept and the ability to use "ink" in e-mail/other document types.
I've read the URL you provided. So what's special about "digital ink"? Light pens existed in the '80s. The EGA video board I had at the time had a connector for those. With fast enough CPUs, "digital ink" would have been possible. So, again, how is that inovation?
Try SQL Server.
Isn't SQL Server based on SyBase?