MS Upgrades To Be Smaller And More Frequent

duplicantk8 writes "Following the numerous delays to the Vista launch, MS is planning to have more frequent and smaller incremental upgrades, according to the Financial Times." From the article: "Those delays are set to end late next year with the simultaneous launch of new versions of Windows and the Office suite of PC applications in the company's most significant new product cycle since Windows 95. The new versions of the company's key PC software are likely to rekindle higher growth after a period that saw its growth rate slip below 10 per cent for the first time last year, according to Wall Street analysts. Mr Ballmer's comments are the most public sign yet of the dent to Microsoft's confidence in its core development process that resulted from the Vista delays."

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OpenDoc?

[zarmanto]

From the end of the article: "Executives have talked of taking a more 'modular' approach to Microsoft's biggest products, breaking them down into smaller elements that can be worked on independently."

That sounds an awful lot like the late OpenDoc platform to me. So perhaps they're doing a double-Apple-copy this time... Blatently copy Apple's product release strategy -- since Steve has been consistently beating them about the head and shoulders with it during his recent keynote speeches -- and then go dig up a dead Apple product that's been long forgotten to replicate, so that everyone thinks that Microsoft came up with it themselves! By jove, it's brilliant!