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I think this is perfectly valid point.We can think of it like this, they are pretty competitive and have shitload of resource. but they are not innovative , the
by 0xFFC 11y ago
I think this is perfectly valid point.We can think of it like this, they are pretty competitive and have shitload of resource. but they are not innovative , the moment , they become leader they lose their interest toward growing and growing, although they have huge amount of resource which help them the moment they become underdog. I think this is cultural problem with Microsoft.
- oblio 11y agoWell, from what I've read on the internet, their culture is changing, at least at the grass roots level. A ton of people promoting Open Source & other similar stuff. It's hard to say what this means for the higher levels, but many people think that Nadella's appointment says that Microsoft does want to change. And luckily for US, Microsoft is and will be the underdog for a while at least, in most markets they are in: web search (after Google), browsers (after Chrome), mobile OSs (after Android and iOS), server-side OSs (after Linux), cloud stacks (after AWS).
- 0xFFC 11y ago>And luckily for US I am having hard time understanding why luckily for US ? Disclaimer : I am not US citizen nor inside us.
- Stratoscope 11y agoI think the parent comment meant "us" like "you and me," not the USA. The capital letters were just for emphasis.
- oblio 11y agoIt was actually a typo, but you're right that I wanted to emphasize that aspect. Freudian slip :)
- stinos 11y agobut they are not innovative They've had a seperate research department for over 20 years or so, and if memory serves me well quite some innovative things came (and still come) out of there. So I think they is too general in your phrase - there is innovation (also look at recent Surface line etc) but you're right in saying that it doesn't always come out and doesn't make it to the market, probably because the they you mean is some parts of management which sees money flowing in and is like 'hey, cashcows enough, no need to think about the future'. Or something like that. And lately this turned around again.
- 0xFFC 11y agoExactly , You correctly rephrased that. I want to note last time I checked people who works at R&D in Microsoft , I literally blown away by their name. Maybe more big name than every other company in whole IT industry. But the fact as you mention remain correct. They are not trying to bring new and innovative stuff to people's life. At least not when they are leader .
- tomphoolery 11y agoI was also surprised to discover Microsoft Research's awesome technology. Actually, they've done a fair bit of licensing that research to other companies who go on to make great things with it. I always thought it was because they were pre-occupied with their own projects: Windows, Office, the Xbox, and of course supporting the vast .NET platform which remains the core of their business model: creating software tools and licensing them out to huge corporations, big big money!
- pcwalton 11y agoThe papers coming out of Microsoft Research are a goldmine (relatively speaking as far as academia goes) for programming language and graphics research, just to name a couple of areas I'm familiar with.