How Infighting Hampers Innovation At Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 4, 2010 @10:40AM 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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Re:When has Microsoft brought us the future? by ajlisows · 2010-02-04 16:37 · Score: 1, Troll

Actually, he didn't misspell Apple, Atari, and Commodore. In terms of the general populace, Microsoft is the one that shipped a GUI to most people. Yeah, there were people with computers back in the 80's but the percentage of the populace that owned a computer then as compared to now is very low. Most people who own a computer today may have a vague notion about Commodore ("Hey! My dorky uncle had one of them Commodore 64 things") and probably know Atari because of the Atari 2600.