The headline is obviously me being funny on a couple fronts. I don’t think it would be news to many people that Microsoft is no longer innovating – at least not outside of developer tools. I was just reading an article on cio.com Windows 7: The Five Most Talked-About Features. It was informative on a couple of fronts. First, I didn’t know “talked-about” was hyphenated. Second, more to the point, is that if these are the most talked-about features then it’s still been about 15 years since Microsoft has actually done anything interesting regarding operating systems. According to the article the five most interesting things Microsoft has spent millions developing in their latest OS include fixing a flawed security UI from the previous version, copying the way Mac does a few things, and adding touch-screen capabilities. Yes MSFT’s OS has gotten more modern but the last improvement they made that really made my life easier was multi-tasking. Touch-screen might be cool but that’ll depend on innovation coming from the ISV community. Someday Microsoft might surprise us with something that really helps us in our daily lives but I wouldn’t put any money on it.
Breaking News: Innovation dead at Microsoft!
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One Comment to “Breaking News: Innovation dead at Microsoft!”
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It is strange they can’t get the OS right given how important it is to them as well as how much money, time, talent etc they have spent on it. But they HAVE done some interesting things with other pieces of software. Even though it is not hip to say so, I am a big fan of Outlook and Excel and the improvements they make with each release. And I have heard great things about Sharepoint. But I agree, their OS innovation is horrible.
