Re: OT: Yet Another Unhappy Customer for Vista

JeffM wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

When has Microsoft ever innovated anything?


Joerg wrote:

MS-Works is pretty good, at least the older versions.


You seem to be saying that *re-inventing the wheel* is innovation.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:moz_j8d_fzwJ:www.dwheeler.com/innovation/microsoft.html+Microsoft-is.not.a.substantial.innovator+GUI+PARC+before.Microsoft+that's.not.innovation+*.if.there.are.some.innovations+none-of-the-key-software-innovations-*-*-*-*-*+*-*-copies-of-previous-products+are.listed+*-*-*-*-*-innovative-either&strip=1


Nope. But I am a firm believer in this capitalistic mantra: If you fail to market your innovation properly you might as well have never invented it.

Sure, there was Visicalc, Lotus and so on. Where are they now? Innovation means many things and most are not at all related to the nerd stuff that we deal with. Such as: Creating a good user interface, advertise your product, make it versatile, make it reliable, make it compatible, have it accept other program's inputs, bring it to market at an affordable price, make sure it's available in regular stores and not just academic or industry circles, and so on.

WRT MS-Works Microsoft sure performed all of the above. WRT to some other stuff like Outlook Express, ahem, they did not IMHO. Which is why I do not use that one.

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