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Excel is a thing of beauty. But let's be real: When you've got other companies bringing home billions in revenue on product categories that did not even exist
by danilocampos 16y ago
Excel is a thing of beauty. But let's be real:
When you've got other companies bringing home billions in revenue on product categories that did not even exist five years ago, it's tough to be impressed that Microsoft gave a facelift to a product that was new in the early 90's.
- MartinCron 16y agoI am being real. Even discounting some mis-steps (Kin, Zune, Vista) the incremental improvements made to Xbox, Windows, Windows Server, Visual Studio, SQL Server, and even IE9 are impressive. It's perfectly possible for a company to be successful and innovative without having huge successes in product categories that didn't exist until recently. From a perfectly selfish perspective, if Microsoft totally gave up on tablets, phones, search, and social. I wouldn't care or even notice because Apple, Google, and Facebook are meeting my needs nicely. Maybe it's unrealistic to expect them to just keep making the things that I use every day better and better. I don't know.