When they become dependent on code generators and their dependency on them, that is the end of innovation and the beginning of the end of what made them a success to start with.
Virgil http://www.IneedBookkeepingHelp.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 11:11 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] How MS conspires to stifle its own innovation. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Michael Madigan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is probably why they should just spin off a company when new technology like that arises. If the Office leader doesn't want to create a tablet version, then the spin-off company uses a different word processor and competes with Office. ---------------------- Just a guess but the changes that the Tablet version needed to be an awesome new type of software the manager of Office was not able to commit to. I have no inside info on any of this but I see decisions like this all the time as I am sure all of you do as well. Could it have been a 30% code base to tweak and manager could not justify the time, $$, testing, etc. I know that I see a lot of great ideas hit the floor on account of those issues. Now in hind site we can all say he should have gone for it but "We" know better don't we ;-> Currently in a situation in laying out design of iPhone / Droid usage of some of our apps and the fighting gets intense. Still have the mindset of using 90% of our existing code and only changing a little to make this roll, but our step 1 position is great for desktops and sucky for compact device. Granted I am talking about design and required elements and they are talking about code generators and tweaking them. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/d12d6e49a557450eb7b207af023c8...@bierschwc0bba6 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
