How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft

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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BUTT IT'S FUNNER TOO WATCHED!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Goes goes M$FT!! BETter then ear eater fightser

Re:So, competition is killing competitiveness?

[evil_aar0n]

> But most people's goals are not 'others must lose so I can win.'

I'm not trying to start a flame-war, here - seriously - but this is, part and parcel, the Republican game plan. They came out and said as much after Obama won the presidency.

Re:rip-offs

[afabbro]

Font smoothing had been done before, but nothing that made use of subpixel rendering. At least, not to the best of my knowledge... please correct me with a citation. (Or, alternatively, stop spreading bullcrap when you have no citation. Thank you.)

People who ask for "citations" on SlashDot need to learn how a discussion forum is different than Wikipedia.