Is Microsoft Money Crushing Microsoft?

JoshuaDFranklin writes "The latest Seattle Weekly has an article by a former Microsoft project manager titled Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow. It argues that Microsoft, addicted to its Windows and Office revenue, is stifling innovation within the company: 'new, better ideas that would take business away from Windows or Office don't really have a chance at Microsoft.' Apple, in contrast, has embraced Open Source and is delivering a better consumer experience." Update: 06/06 21:24 GMT by T : Sorry, it's a dupe.

Comments

Re:What are you talking about?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, a recycler, how novel!

... well, it would have been, if it NeXTstep hadn't had it since before 1989 (NeXTstep is also where Window 95 got its taskbar). See for example this page for more details.

... which just serves to show even more how un-innovative Microsoft is. Of course, there's nothing wrong with building on other people's ideas, but there's something pretty sick about then pretending to be creative, and something pretty sad about a market where users are so unaware of alternatives that they buy this lie.

Re:You're absolutely right!

[steffl]

"KDE with a taskbar, start menu, integrated filesystem/net browser, Mono"

those are not MS innovations. There were number of different docks, launchpads, root menus etc. in X, OS/2, MacOS, taskbar and start menu are nothing new (i.e. not significantly different from the others). You could do cd ftp://ftp.uu.net in midnight commander since before MS new Netscape would be a threat. .net (Mono in gnome world) is MS response to Java, nothing new/innovative.

erik