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How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rather-a-broad-brush dept.

Garabito writes "Dick Brass, former vice-president at Microsoft, published an op-ed in The New York Times, where he states that 'Microsoft has become a clumsy, uncompetitive innovator' and how 'it has lost share in Web browsers, high-end laptops and smartphones.' He attributes this situation to the lack of a true system for innovation at Microsoft. Some former employees argue that Microsoft has a system to thwart innovation. He tells how promising and innovative technologies like ClearType and the original TabletPC concept become crippled and sabotaged internally, by groups and divisions that felt threatened by them."

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  1. Re:When has Microsoft brought us the future? by jcr · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    OK, they had a good compiler and toolchain in the '70s

    I don't recall their compilers and tools ever being more than mediocre.

    -jcr

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    The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
  2. Re:Gradual Decay by clampolo · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    You'd be surprised how many people say that, and yet when the software gets to see their dynamic signature (as points in time, not just an image), it easily finds the things that make their signature unique and clearly distinguishes it from anyone else's.

    Good God!! You guys couldn't even get the DHCP in Vista to keep from knocking out my router. And you think someone would be stupid enough to buy a device that uses advanced signature recognition software to access it? I could just imagine forever losing access to my data because some stupid signature recognition algorithm had a bug.

    Just admit that Microsoft has very poor technical talent and poor innovation. While you were bitching and moaning about styluses, Apple realized people hate using a stylus and brought us touch screen interfaces.