[Am-info] MS and Innovation (_Wired_)

[Steve Cohen]

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On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 19:18:57   Dan Strychalski wrote:
>Jean-Louis Gassee, Ed Black, Tim O'Reilly, and others on the subject of
>Microsoft and innovation....
>
>   [...]
>   "I'd love to see their list ... of where they think they've made major
>   innovations," Black said. "I've never seen one that was very real or
>   persuasive."
>
>   Asked for such a list, Microsoft first responded with a short email. 
>   "We were able to find examples of strong evidence of Microsoft's
>   innovation over the last 5-10 years ... our work on the GUI, 32-bit OS,
>   XML, etc., are examples."
>
>   Pressed for more specifics, the company provided a list that was largely
>   a compendium of little-known improvements to existing technologies.
>   [...]
>                              --Chris Oakes, "MS: Innovator or Integrator?"
>                       http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,36902,00.html
>
>A few more mind-bogglers from Cecil B. deGates in there, too.
>
>Dan Strychalski
>
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HMM.  About a month ago I posted a particularly clueless article from the Washington Post where the author, after an interview with Ballmer, claimed that XML was invented by "two technologists at Microsoft."  I assumed that the author may have misunderstood - that even Ballmer wouldn't lie that baldfacedly.

Now I'm not so sure...


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