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Ballmer on Innovation
prostoalex writes "Robert Scoble interviewed Steve Ballmer on the topics of blogging, innovation at Microsoft, Microsoft's work with developers and other things. Video is available in WMV format." From the interview: "Did IBM out innovate us? I don't think so. I don't think they've done much interesting at all. What about Oracle? I don't think they've done much innovative at all. What about the open source guys? Ah, the business model is interesting but we haven't seen much in the way of technical innovation. People cite Google. Google has done some interesting stuff."
Also, Ballmer seems to need a refresher in basic math... last I checked, 1 + 1 != 3
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Ah, like that wonderful TCP protocol they stole from Microsoft? Or all of the protocols the internet runs on, most of which were implemented in BSD first?
He didn't mention Apple because they don't have a significant market share ... 'those open source guys' is a large group of people who represent a real type of competition
I would think that from their point of view, Apple poses a bigger threat to MS than 'those open source guys'.
You should always read the whole definition before using it on /.
innovate
v : bring something new to an environment; "A new word processor was introduced" [syn: introduce]
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At any rate, they've done tons of stuff in my area as well as the guy who mentioned all the stuff they brought to the compiler/IDE arena. I work in graphics.
As an example to my point, find a PC game developer who uses Open/GL. Got one? Good. Now, if that developer is iD, go ahead and drop that and find another. Got another? Good. If that's Blizzard (for WoW), go ahead and drop that and find another. Got one? No?
Direct3D is innovative. It revs regularly, and it keeps up with technology. It provides a unified API to deal directly with multiple types of underlying hardware and architecture. It incorporates new hardware functionality directly into that API. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well.
They also publish a fairly impressive collection of algorithms. For example, Spherical Harmonic Lighting came out of MS. Blinn works there (of the Blinn shading model fame). In fact, odds are pretty good that if your favorite famous 3-D innovator doesn't work at NVIDIA (Molnar, Tarolli, Everitt, Cebenoyan, etc), they probably work at Microsoft (Blinn, Smith, etc).
To discount MS as an innvator because you dislike their business practices is ludicrous.
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Exactly. Joe Windows, as "Rick and Roll" calls him, isn't worth the effort. They are coming to us in droves because of what we offer -- plain ordinary freedom. If ever Joe Windows decides that he wants freedom he will choose to join us. The "big guys" are addressing our needs now because they see a powerful growing market. Microsoft has only one direction to go, down. Joe Windows is worth only our disdain. He is the slave who supports the slaver system.
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