From the end of the article: "Executives have talked of taking a more 'modular' approach to Microsoft's biggest products, breaking them down into smaller elements that can be worked on independently."
That sounds an awful lot like the late OpenDoc platform to me. So perhaps they're doing a double-Apple-copy this time... Blatently copy Apple's product release strategy -- since Steve has been consistently beating them about the head and shoulders with it during his recent keynote speeches -- and then go dig up a dead Apple product that's been long forgotten to replicate, so that everyone thinks that Microsoft came up with it themselves! By jove, it's brilliant!
So lets see... by that time, I'll be about fifty years old -- and if my wife has her way, I'll have about twenty kids or so, not including grandchildren. Do you think they'll take me??
I don't exactly see how this is such earth shattering news. The United States Army is using a first person shooter for much the same purpose (although, admittedly with the very specific agenda of recruiting our youth, of course) and Broderbund has done this for years with Carmen San Diego, Oregon Trail and other titles, so why would it be so surprising that another big video game house might experiment within the educational market as well?
So this might well be A Good Thing(tm), as it brings a fresh infusion of programming talent into the educational software arena, but it's not exactly shocking news.
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What? You say I'm being childish? Gee, why on earth would I go and do a thing like that?
That sounds an awful lot like the late OpenDoc platform to me. So perhaps they're doing a double-Apple-copy this time... Blatently copy Apple's product release strategy -- since Steve has been consistently beating them about the head and shoulders with it during his recent keynote speeches -- and then go dig up a dead Apple product that's been long forgotten to replicate, so that everyone thinks that Microsoft came up with it themselves! By jove, it's brilliant!
So lets see... by that time, I'll be about fifty years old -- and if my wife has her way, I'll have about twenty kids or so, not including grandchildren. Do you think they'll take me??
So this might well be A Good Thing(tm), as it brings a fresh infusion of programming talent into the educational software arena, but it's not exactly shocking news.