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I don't agree. I think it's one of the strength of a large corp like MS. They are able to separate research and prototyping from product development. You don't
by serbrech 10y ago
I don't agree. I think it's one of the strength of a large corp like MS. They are able to separate research and prototyping from product development.
You don't turn a research project into a product. You learn from it and incorporate it into your products
- krylon 10y agoI think they could have turned it into a product if they had wanted to. They had, however, a very, very good reason not to - it probably would not have been backwards compatible with Win32, so the huge amount of third-party software that exists today could not have run on it. And that - whether one likes Windows or not - is a very compelling selling point. So things they learned building Midori will trickle back into the Windows/.Net world. I agree that that is what a good research department is for. But still, it would have been nice to take Midori for a test drive and see what it would have been like.