Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Nov 2005 15:50 UTC, submitted by Sumi Das
"In such a scenario, Microsoft is investing money in software development, and even though the final product is great (and I use that term loosely) by itself, it is not so significant a change that people will upgrade immediately. I expect a lot of people to stick with their current office suite even when Office 12 becomes a retail reality; same could be the case with Windows Vista. Having said that, it's also a given that there is no way software development can come to a halt. What option does that leave the software industry with?"
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Practically every tech news site has been bombarded with this "news" from "super-secret" MS Research.
It's pretty apparent that they leaked this on purpose to get feedback. Of course, geeks would hate it.
Frankly, Microsoft has outlived its usefulness. All we need now is a stable, open OS. App vendors and hardware manufacturers can provide the innovation.
Stardock made Windows pretty.
BSD gave Windows Internet functionality.
Realmedia, Winamp and Quicktime gave us WMP.
Ad nauseum.
Now Vista is going to try to replace PDF with XPS, Flash MX with Sparkle, HTML&EMCAScript & Flash with XAML.
If Microsoft wants to compete on a level playing field with things like Office, that's cool, but do we need to keep subsidizing them to clone stuff, much of which is already free, and charge us for it through OS bundling?
Eventually, every industry matures, what was once unique becomes common and interchangeable due to multiple vendors. Microsoft won't be exempt from this.