According to Joel Spolski, of Microsoft Excel fame, he left Microsoft because of the company’s policy of encouraging the developer community to waste time and e

According to Joel Spolski, of Microsoft Excel fame, he left Microsoft because of the company’s policy of encouraging the developer community to waste time and energy chasing new software technologies rather than shipping great software. In other words, Msft has a long history of suppressing competition by steering the industry away from doing things that could threaten Msft’s dominance: like moving your company from the C++ language you’ve mastered to a new modern language you don’t know well.