Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
RBW wrote:
I disagree. They are geniuses at all three of those tasks.
If a bully can be a genius, then yeah, they're geniuses.
Note that you said *publishing* software, not *creating* software.
I thought the same thing.
As for creating software, I'm not sure I would claim that they suck at
that either. They have created a set of applications that legions of
businesses run on. That's not a definition of "suckage" that I would be
prepared to defend.
Wrong if you insist on using the word "created" above. Microsoft did not
create a any of their leading products except Windows itself, which of
course was neither created in a vacuum, nor by them alone.
All current instances of their best-selling, best used software are
iterations of products acquired from others by various and nefarious
means. So I think the characterization of genius in that category is at
best overly generous.
While I understand the reason why Microsoft is fighting the OpenDocument
stuff in Massachusetts, once they decide to support it (and they will)
all of the old arguments about how expensive it is to change come back
into force. Microsoft has the benefit of *inertia*; it is the
entrenched interest that everybody currently uses.
-a
A speeding bullet has inertia too - until it stops. And it will stop.
Public distrust has been scrubbing off Microsoft's speed for years.
Eventually, they'll go down just like everyone who's come before them.
At the moment, the Google-Microsoft tension is looking more and more
like what we saw in the 90's with Microsoft and IBM. Heck I can foresee
a day when M$ actually becomes a respectable industry citizen. That or
they'll die.
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