A Microsoft-Speak Timeline - From Altair to Zune

netbuzz writes "No company has had more to say about software over the past 30 years than Microsoft (for better or worse). How they've said it — the actual language used — reveals a lot about the company's evolution and is the focus of a new timeline. There's a look back at a 'tag cloud' provided by the Seattle P-I. In addition to analyzing the linguistics of about 90 documents, there are also links to such gems as Bill Gates' Playboy interview and his famous 'Open Letters to Hobbyists.' From the article: 'We're talking all the way from Altair to Zune, with stops along the way for every technology the company developed, bought or borrowed, right on through to current entanglements with Vista, Linux and Google. The tool allows for an at-a-glance view of company priorities as they evolve and shift.'"

Comments

2007

[ShorePiper82]

2007 with Microsoft/Novell SuSE could yield: MS-UX (pronounced "M SUCKS")

Re:Keep on getting away with it...

[Overly Critical Guy]

No offense, but Jon Stewart is a registered Democrat. All anyone has to do is pull up Clinton's finger-wagging "sexual relations" denial. If you're in the public eye and everything you say gets recorded, I guarantee you will say things that eventually contradict something you once said before for whatever reasons. Especially if you're a business where industry trends come and go and you have to adapt to market changes. Holding Bill Gates to a letter he wrote in 1976 is just being anal.

Re:Keep on getting away with it...

[rainman_bc]

All anyone has to do is pull up Clinton's finger-wagging "sexual relations" denial. If you're in the public eye and everything you say gets recorded

Give me a break. The Republicans tried to impeach Clinton for lying about that sexual relations, but no one has gone after Dubya for lying about the presence of WMD's and invading a country on false information.

I know this is off topic, and the mods will have at me for this, but I have Karma to burn...