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Chicken and egg. How do you make key partnerships without great tech? Think about OEM customization, i18n/l10n, backwards compability (etc). If MS didn't know
by inerte 16y ago
Chicken and egg.
How do you make key partnerships without great tech?
Think about OEM customization, i18n/l10n, backwards compability (etc). If MS didn't know how to do these, history would be different.
- enjo 16y agoWasn't the entire foundation of the company built on a partnership for which literally no tech (owned by Microsoft at least) existed?
- kqr2 16y agoKeep in mind the term "vaporware" was coined by a Microsoft engineer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware Microsoft was infamous for announcing products that they didn't have ready. This often discouraged corporations from buying competing products. In this case, business trumped technology.