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| Microsoft and innovation... | | Date Created: Jul 25, 2005, 07:45 PM |
I think it's funny. When you hear the word innovation from MS or someone who is talking about MS - don't you just want to scream! What more of an oxymoron could there be? Microsoft Innovation? Shut up!
They've never created anything. They buy, or outright steal, technology and then add it to their software arsenal...
For example: At the moment, they are losing their war against spyware, adware, and viruses. They can not fix the problem. So they're buying all the Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, and Anti-Virus companies they can. They're going to take all of these technologies, stuff them all together, and (once again) use the public as a BETA TESTERS for their SP1 of the next OS...
All this is going to do is create a false sense of security. All of these technologies stuffed together are going to create more holes in the code, make it harder to find these holes, and bottleneck the computer itself...
Funny, MS only allows software developers to Beta Test their actual "Beta" software. They have to, the software developers write their programs to work with the new OS. The problem is, the developers do not test the OS, they test their software on the OS - and they do what they have to do to make it work on the OS. So their real "Beta Testers" are the people who buy their products in the first 6 months to a year of it's release...
If they don't have the people to make the technology, which they don't, then what makes them think they have the people to make all of these different technologies work together? Why don't they just concentrate on making Windows itself work as it should before moving on to something else?
They can't even write a secure, and/or reliable, OS - why not just stop there and fix it before moving on to other software? MS is just perpetuating this cycle of bad software from which they will never be able to escape - simply because they are unwilling (and probably unable) to stop and fix what is wrong now, before moving on to the next thing...
They have a great campaign that is worthless because people are catching on. Of Windows users, how many are actually running XP Pro? You see? People just don't trust what they say over in Redmond anymore...
The size of their software is pathetic - it's huge! They kept writing bad code on top of bad code and before you knew it, it was too big to do anything with. All of their security updates are due to "known flaws", simply because the code is too large to check for holes anymore.
What they should have done 5 years ago was start from scratch with fresh code. Supposedly, this is what they are doing with "Vista" - have you seen the specs for the required hardware just to run that OS? Talk about a step backwards. The typical user out there will have to get another computer just to run the "Vista" OS. Innovation is moving into the future. Linux can run faster, more reliably, and much more securely on a 5 year old machine, than a brand new Win XP Pro machine with all the trimmin's. Win XP Pro will crawl on a machine that old. "Vista" will not even load to it.
What's innovative about it? Oh! I see! Finding more ways to get the consumer to buy your customer's product. Who is the real customer for MS Vista? Dell, HP, IBM, and anyone else who sells computers, that's who. They're not gonna say a word about the system resources that this new OS requires, cause, when all is said and done, they want you to go out and buy their computers...
If Steve Jobs can come out with something like a Tablet Mac which will do all the powerbook is doing right now - with killer speakers, a touch screen, and keyboard software - Apple may have a serious chance of gaining some market share...
Now, think of the name "Steve Jobs". He is all about innovation. He's always been 5 years ahead of MS - the gap is getting bigger every year... |
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