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Microsoft Research Fights Critics
coondoggie writes to tell us Network World is taking a look at why Microsoft Research has to fight so hard against critics. From the article: "When the word 'innovation' is tossed about many may look down their nose at the company sitting on top of the high-tech industry — Microsoft. [...] Microsoft Research incubates not only futuristic ideas but young minds, having hired 700 interns worldwide this year including 250 computer science PhD candidates in Redmond alone, which is roughly 21% of all the computer science PhD candidates in the United States."
Maybe its because a lot of the stuff they are working on is incorporated into existing products?
Like what? Can you name even one thing that they've incorporated which would require a giant research department? I haven't seen a single thing in any of their products that wasn't either obvious or copied from a competitor.
Nah it's just Microsoft so lets blindly bash them
It's not blind bashing when their comments have substance to them, unlike yours.
for all those people they pay for, they could be pumping money into actually making Windows a usable and enjoyable product.
Or maybe MSR are scamming microsoft as much as microsoft marketers are scamming the world.
A few random MSR scams:
- "hey Wordperfect are making lots of money selling a word processor, let's make our own."
- "hey, over 50% of Sony's global profits are from a games console. let's make our own."
- "hey Apple came up with this fancy MOV movie container format. let's make our own."
- "hey Apple are selling a music player and have an online music store. let's make our own."
These alleged innovations from Microsoft are nothing more than their having an uncanny ability to review the current market leaders and imitating.
Or maybe we're just misreading their website. Maybe it really does say "imitations" and our minds are reading it as "innovations." Where are those psychologists?
The reason girls and Windows users don't understand UNIX is because all the documentation is in Man files.
Such as keeping talented people from working for the competition.
Now they can be safely tasked to researching Clippy NT (New Technology, yay!)
"The problem is not that Microsoft research isn't doing anything interesting, it's that projects like this tend to get buried, or ignored, or simply have a few ideas shifted into existing products."
No the real problem is that MS uses it's research dept to gain patents and then sues or threatens to sue people or companies that might want to do the same thing.
MS research does not exist to make MS products better, it exists to prevent other companies from improving their products.
evil is as evil does
Writing a paper is not innovation.
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
The whole thing... Everything works together. I'm using Windows 2K, Exchange Server, Outlook, Office, Visual Studio, and very soon, RMS. It's all an integrated, easy to use package. Like I said, nobody else is really anywhere close to that. It's not a nasty patchwork like Linux, where all you have to do is sneeze at the computer, and it's irreparably broken (unless you're a Unix admin). It's also complete on the back end (Exchange Server, IIS, SQL Server, etc) for just about anything you need in most generic small to medium sized businesses (unlike Apple).
are you fucking retarded? Haven't been following the whole novell saga? Ballmer said they plan on suing people who use linux because linux infrignes on their IP and that the only safe way you could use linux is by buying it from Novell.
That's threating to sue people.
Oh and your google fu sucks. They this "Microsoft lawsuit FAT" and follow the first link.
evil is as evil does