[CGUYS] NYT's op ed about MS future...but the author seems to get he past wrong

[mike]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?th=emc=thpagewanted=all
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AS they marvel at Apple’s new iPad tablet computer, the technorati seem to
be focusing on where this leaves Amazon’s popular e-book business. But the
much more important question is why Microsoft, America’s most famous and
prosperous technology company, no longer brings us the future, whether it’s
tablet computers like the iPad, e-books like Amazon’s Kindle, smartphones
like the BlackBerry and iPhone, search engines like Google, digital music
systems like iPod and iTunes or popular Web services like Facebook and
Twitter.*

I like the part where he says 'no longer brings us the future', the question
is, when did MS ever do this?  Still rather interesting, written by a former
MS VP.


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Re: [CGUYS] NYT's op ed about MS future...but the author seems to get he past wrong

[tjpa]

On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:26 AM, mike wrote:
I like the part where he says 'no longer brings us the future', the  
question
is, when did MS ever do this?  Still rather interesting, written by  
a former

MS VP.


There was a very short time when M$ did. They brought us M$ Word,  
which was a heck of a lot better than Word Perfect and Excel. Both of  
those products were innovative and winners on their own merits. They  
should get credit for that. Alas it wasn't long before they decided  
that more money could be made by thuggery and even these fine products  
started their downward spiral.



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