[Am-info] query about MS "Innovations"

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.03.30 12:36 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>> If an 'office suite' suite is an innovation, it is in that it was just 
>> another way for MS to do the same thing as they've always done.  The part 
>> of the apps working together was not a part of it in the beginning.
>
>If bundling three applications into one box is an "innovation," then I 
>believe Microsoft can claim credit for it. I can check the history on this 
>if anyone is interested, but as I recall the debut of Microsoft Office 
>sent Novell scrambling for an office suite of their own, which they were 
>not exactly sharp about delivering.

    If we count Office as an innovation, then making Internet Explorer a 
"part" of Windows is also. So would the bundling of Media Player and MSN 
Messenger. And I'd rather not give Microsoft any credit for inventing 
those, unless I'm testifying before a grand jury. Just most things 
Microsoft is credited with, it's all a marketing concept instead of real 
innovation.


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