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The Surface sums up for me why Microsoft is a disappointment (to me at least), it's an area of boundless potential that's besmirched by poorly thought out execu

The Surface sums up for me why Microsoft is a disappointment (to me at least), it's an area of boundless potential that's besmirched by poorly thought out execution. Microsoft has the potential to really nail these things, but instead they deliver a product that works and you get no joy out of it at best, and actively dislike it at worst. It's 2013, don't expect a user to remember to click save, and especially don't on a tablet as they've already become accustomed to data persistence, don't force updates every 2 weeks unless it's something critical (zero day critical), really nail transitions and animations and encourage developers to build applications that take advantage of the form factor. But they didn't, and here we are. It's like having a set of drawers where the third one down needs to have the second draw pulled open half way and the bottom all the way in to work properly. It's totally liveable, but you'll always resent it.

JonFish85 13y ago
The Surface sums up for me why Microsoft is a disappointment Completely agree. Microsoft can't win for losing. They have some great products and the cash to really make a dent, then they completely flub the opportunity. I feel like they're trying to cast too wide of a net and in doing so miss the important details. They have almost the polar opposite approach of Apple, who will happily give up features in order to have other features work solidly (in my opinion). A former boss of mine once said that users will forgive a lack of features, but not a lack of stability/usability. I agree with that. I'd rather have a limited set of features that WORK than a larger set of features that "sort of" work. I don't know if this comes from Microsoft's background of working with corporate partners (and delivery dates are important to fulfill a contract, bugs or not) or what.

JonFish85 13y ago

The Surface sums up for me why Microsoft is a disappointment Completely agree. Microsoft can't win for losing. They have some great products and the cash to really make a dent, then they completely flub the opportunity. I feel like they're trying to cast too wide of a net and in doing so miss the important details. They have almost the polar opposite approach of Apple, who will happily give up features in order to have other features work solidly (in my opinion). A former boss of mine once said that users will forgive a lack of features, but not a lack of stability/usability. I agree with that. I'd rather have a limited set of features that WORK than a larger set of features that "sort of" work. I don't know if this comes from Microsoft's background of working with corporate partners (and delivery dates are important to fulfill a contract, bugs or not) or what.