Linked by David Adams on Fri 30th Nov 2007 19:17 UTC, submitted by Pette Johnson
Lawyers for plaintiffs in a case brought against Microsoft over Vista's marketing have claimed that Microsoft was not telling the truth when it put the "Vista Capable" logo on PCs that would only be capable of running Vista Home Basic. Lawyers claimed that even Microsoft's director of marketing, Mark Croft, had become confused about the meaning of "Vista capable" when giving evidence.
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If only they'd get out of the application business and concentrate more on the OS, they'd have a decent product - just imagine the paperclip helper in the Control Panel!
Actually, I've always felt that if Microsoft got out of the OS business and focused on applications, they'd have better products.
Pretty much every business unit within that company has to tie back into Windows somehow; MSN, MSO, XBox, Media, etc. It would be interesting to see how well they would do if they were free to develop for an open market, rather than be constricted by trying to exploit whatever the latest technologies in Windows are in order to encourage platform upgrades.
MS is a rich company with a plethora of pretty brilliant developers, it would be nice to see what they could really accomplish if they were set free.
Just a pipe dream...
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2006-02-06
They've apparently gotten too big even for themselves.
I was chatting with one of our consultants today about the very notion that Vista requires too many resources despite the user being paused almost every step of the way for approval to even look at the desktop.
Vista is today what Apple was way back when Jobs got fired the first time around.
If only they'd get out of the application business and concentrate more on the OS, they'd have a decent product - just imagine the paperclip helper in the Control Panel!
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Edited 2007-12-01 00:03