.NET was pure development project without MS Research Center involvement. It’s heavily based on ideas from systems like UCSD Pascal, Java, etc., so no research was required. It was just a Microsoft response to Java and I’ve heard it is frozen now, meaning ‘abandoned’ in fact.
Microsoft did researched and invented small things like a couple of new convenient mouse shapes and an ergonomic keyboard layout, which is rather facetious for such a huge company.
You are right, mouse wheel was invented by a Microsoft guy in 1993 (the story is here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/05/meet-the-inventor-of-the-mouse-wheel.html).
But this was a long time ago. Current Microsoft bureaucratic hierarchy and stiff internal process guarantee that no significant invention can come out of Redmond anymore.
Just answering your next guess in advance: technology behind Kinect was invented and refined by Israel firm PrimeSense.
There was absolutely no MS research for Kin.
Kin software was developed by Danger, Inc. and was called Sidekick before the Danger was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for 500M$. The original development team was pushed out by internal MS bureaucracy and replaced by their buddies, who killed the project.
As far as I know MS research division is a joke. It’s main purpose is to search for a promising start-ups to acquire
It seems not all results are enjoyable. Many companies do a lot of research, but do not enjoy the results as well.
I guess one has to add something else to the mix, e.g. big money, army of lawyers and pocket government.
Intel, HP and IBM have several large R&D centers in Europe and Asia, so probably they can not be used as sample patriotic corporations. Google really has about 80% of developers in States, but it’s sort of an exception proving the rule.
Anyway these are just two big companies. I worked in two smaller firms that after several attempts found good cheep companies in India and Russia and outsources ALL the development there. Partially this happened because of poor performance, demonstrated by local programmers. A vicious circle as you may see.
I guess until outsourcing is not properly taxed, the American tech mojo will be dwindling. Another option is to open borders and make same laws and salaries all over the planet. Although I’m not sure our future rulers from GOP would like the idea.
Judging from my experience in 30% of cases US team really could keep developing project here by outsourcing only easier and tedious projects parts. It depends on a project, country, team and other specifics. To make a reliable statistics requires a lot of groundwork and companies willing to share the information (which I doubt).
In manufacturing area the situation is much clearer because of the labels.
If you read comment on the mentioned article on Fontanka news agency site, you'll learn that this deputy director Vladimir Karpov just didn't properly understood the journalist' question. You have to register only powerful Wi-Fi transmitting stations, which is required in every country. It's not about personal or home equipment
Of course, if you ask those dunderheads from Putin's former KGB circle about something, you'll always get an answer, that you have to register and to get permission to everything including breathing (a Bush Jr. dearest dream).
Nobody really cares much about them in Russia though.
If you want an opinion of a Russian, who remembers the 80-ies well, here it is: in Gorbachyov era there was more freedom for mass media, but less freedom for business.
I guess very democratic G.W. Bush envies his 'friend' Vladimir, when having to deal with remnants of a free press here. Sure it's not Fox News network or even CNN, that are not much different from our Channel One.
Small correction: GULAG as a system was dismantled in 1955-56, after execution in December 1953 of L.P.Beria (Stalin friend and chief of KGB) and his aids.
I agree. All muslims has to be placed into a special places and carefully watched. Or they have a choice returning to their homelands and do whatever they want there. This way we can continue living a regular modern life with sodas, cell phones, TVs and so on.
What they actually want: bring us back to the cave. So far we are helping them to succeded.
There are average 5-10 managers per
developer. Each of them requires bonuses, options, severance package,
stationary, luxury business trips etc. A couple of billions is just nothing for
those vamp middle-level MS managers.
As far as I know Microsoft rules, Dan will not speak out his MS experience until 3-5 years passes. The pay a lot of money to their lawyers for guys like him to keep their mouth closed.
I can only imagine what crap they wanted him to do.
To maintain revenue growth (managers hate stop growing, you know)
theaters and cable networks should charge us also for previews and commercials.
Sometimes they are really better than the film itself.
Lukovsky's story reminds me that of Rudolf Hess, who in May 1941 flew from Germany to England.
Of course Adolf Gates and Hermann Ballmer are still in their Redmondreichskanzelei bunker
making big party parades and trying to win IT WW II with their huge Soft-Wehrmacht. The Thinking Mankind victory still requires millions more sudden blue deaths and thousands programming talents, tortured and killed by The Secret Unvisual Basic service.
But at least there is a faint scent of revival now.
Now it's clear why recent Red Hat distributions more and more reminded me of Windows. Blocking MP3 was also a clear sign, that something wrong is going inside RH.
Remeber how in the late 80-ies Microsoft very skillfully compromised Unix 'making' their ugly Xenix? So that everybody 'could see for oneself' that Unix is not 'mature' comparing to DOS and Windows 1.0 (!!!).
It's a real pleasure to see how really ingenious these Redmond guys are in such tricks to conceal there inability to create something really good and new!
I only wonder when Red Hat started playing decoy-duck for Microsoft. Perhaps when its management decided not to pay much to smart developers capable of making a really user-friendly Linux distribution. But I believe it will appear soon, cause Linux is really mature, if Microsoft resorted to such devices.
I think you are right. The internal structure and ideology of Microsoft is exactly of the same as the Nazies 'Wehrmacht' with S.Balmer as Goering and W.GatesIII as fuhrer Adolf.
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.NET was pure development project without MS Research Center involvement. It’s heavily based on ideas from systems like UCSD Pascal, Java, etc., so no research was required. It was just a Microsoft response to Java and I’ve heard it is frozen now, meaning ‘abandoned’ in fact.
Microsoft did researched and invented small things like a couple of new convenient mouse shapes and an ergonomic keyboard layout, which is rather facetious for such a huge company.
You are right, mouse wheel was invented by a Microsoft guy in 1993 (the story is here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/05/meet-the-inventor-of-the-mouse-wheel.html).
But this was a long time ago. Current Microsoft bureaucratic hierarchy and stiff internal process guarantee that no significant invention can come out of Redmond anymore.
Just answering your next guess in advance: technology behind Kinect was invented and refined by Israel firm PrimeSense.
There was absolutely no MS research for Kin.
Kin software was developed by Danger, Inc. and was called Sidekick before the Danger was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for 500M$. The original development team was pushed out by internal MS bureaucracy and replaced by their buddies, who killed the project.
As far as I know MS research division is a joke. It’s main purpose is to search for a promising start-ups to acquire
It seems not all results are enjoyable. Many companies do a lot of research, but do not enjoy the results as well.
I guess one has to add something else to the mix, e.g. big money, army of lawyers and pocket government.
Intel, HP and IBM have several large R&D centers in Europe and Asia, so probably they can not be used as sample patriotic corporations. Google really has about 80% of developers in States, but it’s sort of an exception proving the rule.
Anyway these are just two big companies. I worked in two smaller firms that after several attempts found good cheep companies in India and Russia and outsources ALL the development there. Partially this happened because of poor performance, demonstrated by local programmers. A vicious circle as you may see.
I guess until outsourcing is not properly taxed, the American tech mojo will be dwindling. Another option is to open borders and make same laws and salaries all over the planet. Although I’m not sure our future rulers from GOP would like the idea.
Judging from my experience in 30% of cases US team really could keep developing project here by outsourcing only easier and tedious projects parts. It depends on a project, country, team and other specifics. To make a reliable statistics requires a lot of groundwork and companies willing to share the information (which I doubt). In manufacturing area the situation is much clearer because of the labels.
Let's wait until Sarah Pailin becomes president.
Absolutely. I always thought, that both of them are actually GOP agents.
Our education system is not poor, it's incredibly rich. Actually it's just another bubble where newcomers are paying for old-timer’ wealth.
Those employed are mostly MBAs and LLMs. The real stuff is produced overseas.
If you read comment on the mentioned article on Fontanka news agency site, you'll learn that this deputy director Vladimir Karpov just didn't properly understood the journalist' question. You have to register only powerful Wi-Fi transmitting stations, which is required in every country. It's not about personal or home equipment
Of course, if you ask those dunderheads from Putin's former KGB circle about something, you'll always get an answer, that you have to register and to get permission to everything including breathing (a Bush Jr. dearest dream).
Nobody really cares much about them in Russia though.Small correction: GULAG as a system was dismantled in 1955-56, after execution in December 1953 of L.P.Beria (Stalin friend and chief of KGB) and his aids.
Do you think 'iMod' or 'iMode' is better?
I agree. All muslims has to be placed into a special places and carefully watched. Or they have a choice returning to their homelands and do whatever they want there. This way we can continue living a regular modern life with sodas, cell phones, TVs and so on. What they actually want: bring us back to the cave. So far we are helping them to succeded.
You forgot about the managers.
There are average 5-10 managers per developer. Each of them requires bonuses, options, severance package, stationary, luxury business trips etc. A couple of billions is just nothing for those vamp middle-level MS managers.
I guess BG doesn't care too. If I had a couple of zillions, I could eveasily muddle several billions on crap like Basic, IE or Melinda Foundation.
As far as I know Microsoft rules, Dan will not speak out his MS experience until 3-5 years passes. The pay a lot of money to their lawyers for guys like him to keep their mouth closed. I can only imagine what crap they wanted him to do.
To maintain revenue growth (managers hate stop growing, you know) theaters and cable networks should charge us also for previews and commercials. Sometimes they are really better than the film itself.
Lukovsky's story reminds me that of Rudolf Hess, who in May 1941 flew from Germany to England. Of course Adolf Gates and Hermann Ballmer are still in their Redmondreichskanzelei bunker making big party parades and trying to win IT WW II with their huge Soft-Wehrmacht. The Thinking Mankind victory still requires millions more sudden blue deaths and thousands programming talents, tortured and killed by The Secret Unvisual Basic service. But at least there is a faint scent of revival now.
At least they will teach our kids one useful thing: that the name of God is Bill Gates.
Now it's clear why recent Red Hat distributions more and more reminded me of Windows. Blocking MP3 was also a clear sign, that something wrong is going inside RH. Remeber how in the late 80-ies Microsoft very skillfully compromised Unix 'making' their ugly Xenix? So that everybody 'could see for oneself' that Unix is not 'mature' comparing to DOS and Windows 1.0 (!!!). It's a real pleasure to see how really ingenious these Redmond guys are in such tricks to conceal there inability to create something really good and new! I only wonder when Red Hat started playing decoy-duck for Microsoft. Perhaps when its management decided not to pay much to smart developers capable of making a really user-friendly Linux distribution. But I believe it will appear soon, cause Linux is really mature, if Microsoft resorted to such devices.
I think you are right. The internal structure and ideology of Microsoft is exactly of the same as the Nazies 'Wehrmacht' with S.Balmer as Goering and W.GatesIII as fuhrer Adolf.