Fake Steve Jobs: Microsoft drowning in complexity

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by farmer • 19 years ago

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palish• 19 years ago

Ehh.. I don't think you could even trim 50% of the features from Microsoft Word and still have a decent word application, let alone 90%.

mojuba2• 19 years ago

90% probably applies to the code, not features. I'd say, MS could have cut 10% of features and 90% of code.

sudhirc• 19 years ago

I agree

hello_moto3• 19 years ago

Could have, would have, should have.

Let's not even bother with stuffs that we don't know.

People made prediction of how screwed up Redmond is but in reality they're still shipping software plus showing other items like Surface, Photosynth, SeaDragon, DLR.

Not that all the stuffs counted as innovation, but the fact that those new items from Redmond are ready for production should show you how MS still active in the world of software.

Then again the people, who said "MS is screwed up, they should've done this and that", aren't working for MS. How could they know how bad MS screwed up?

The other people who worked for MS and said "MS is screwed up" are less than 100 headcounts compare to 60,000 MS employees. In a company, you cannot achieve 100% level of satisfaction. If you have 1000 headcounts, you have 1000 "wants".

aston• 19 years ago

Microsoft is far less interested in trimming the fat and far more interested in making sure that any feature an enterprise client could ask for is included. For Microsoft, software's a business.

jmpeters• 19 years ago

Mmm, maybe Fake Steve Jobs is DHH. :)

Fake Steve Jobs: Microsoft drowning in complexity

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