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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!)