Linked by David Adams on Fri 4th Jul 2008 15:47 UTC, submitted by Caffeine Deprived
This article by Shane Schick looks at changes Steve Ballmer should consider making at Microsoft now that Bill Gates is out the door. A couple of the most interesting: making user education a priority and establishing an open source project.
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2005-07-06
One thing and only one thing
Gather a team to develop another operating system that is lean and fast and depends on proven technology; and I highly recommend dropping NT, and using a different core like BSD, Linux or solaris. Meanwhile work on a very good emulation project for windows programs, ie exactly like what Apple did with their OSX.
Now MS showed us how they never overcome viruses and security problems and how badly their graphics engine is compared with the others in mac and linux platforms. why to deviate from openGL why not use linux desktop composition engines, why not use a proven core like BSD or solaris, why.... many things
Look at MS windows explorer how frequently it crashes in Vista and XP. I never encountered any Finder crash in OSX and I see 1/10th the amount of crash when using Nautilus, 1/5th with Konqueror; so why not adapt one of those.
Also I thing within the development team there should be a design team to judge the developers sloppy work and to force them to adhere to standards of good roots. Eg, the team will watch for nested windows and prevent them.. No more than 2 windows deep for any settings, I mean consolidate all windows in one location and go from there with tab systems; get a clue from System Preferences in Mac.
And when the project is fine and good produce that OS and name it different, lets say Microsoft Doors, or Microsoft Wizards,...or anything but windows; but keep selling windows for those who wants to stay in windows for compatibility until they are ready for Microsoft Doors. Don't improve windows at that time, and don't introduce new features to it, it will be there just for compatibility and to give customers time to breath before they switch to the new OS.
I know that MS will never do that, but this is just my opinion of how to improve, take it or leave it.
Thanks for reading