I Will Never Understand Wind

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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Look at pretty much any entrepeneur - I think we can all agree Bill
Gates is an exemplar with this - yet Bill Gates and Microsoft have never
done anything radical at the 'front end' because the market won't stand
for it. (In fact Microsoft can barely be counted as being an innovator)

The "Blue Screen of Death" does not count as innovative? Damn, you're
hard
to please...

I understand that the vast majority of MS's R&D goes for reverse engineering
competing products.

Matt Barrow opined

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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Look at pretty much any entrepeneur - I think we can all agree Bill
Gates is an exemplar with this - yet Bill Gates and Microsoft have never
done anything radical at the 'front end' because the market won't stand
for it. (In fact Microsoft can barely be counted as being an innovator)

The "Blue Screen of Death" does not count as innovative? Damn, you're
hard
to please...


The history of computing can be documented by things that M$ didn't invent.

I understand that the vast majority of MS's R&D goes for reverse engineering
competing products.

And if that doesn't work, buy the competition.



-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?

"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow opined

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
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"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
...
Look at pretty much any entrepeneur - I think we can all agree Bill
Gates is an exemplar with this - yet Bill Gates and Microsoft have
never
done anything radical at the 'front end' because the market won't
stand
for it. (In fact Microsoft can barely be counted as being an
innovator)

The "Blue Screen of Death" does not count as innovative? Damn, you're
hard
to please...


The history of computing can be documented by things that M$ didn't
invent.

I'm not a computer junkie, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a product
that MS sells that they DID invent.


I understand that the vast majority of MS's R&D goes for reverse
engineering
competing products.

And if that doesn't work, buy the competition.

Of course, MS is downright hysterical about people reverse engineering THEIR
products.

In article , Matt Barrow wrote:
I'm not a computer junkie, but I'd be hard pressed to think of a product
that MS sells that they DID invent.

Clippy? Microsoft BoB?

Oh, SELLS, not sold. Even Microsoft have got the clue that Clippy and
BoB were bad ideas!

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