Re: Microsoft "innovation"

In article <po0vf15kk8qt2bolk6q621mhnglhutu3im@xxxxxxx>,
Tom Elam <tom_elam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:13:41 -0400, ZnU <znu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Moreover, just because Microsoft demos something first, doesn't mean
> >Apple isn't already working on it. Microsoft demos things years before
> >they ship. Apple demos things maybe two or three months before they
> >ship. Quartz Extreme is a neat example of how this works. Microsoft
> >announced similar capabilities for Longhorn before Apple announced QE.
> >If you look back, though, Apple employees had been making comments on
> >mailing lists a year or two before Microsoft's announcement that clearly
> >were hinting at QE.
>
> For Microsoft to run the demo they had to be working on a demo for
> years too. Moreover, Microsoft tests Windows with hundreds of
> thousands of Beta testers, not thousands as Apple does. That takes
> more time, but shows that they actually care about their released
> products.

Microsoft doesn't care all that much.

One company I know paid tens of thousands of dollars for licenses for two sets
of source code from Microsoft. They discovered some serious bugs that prevented
the two software packages from working together. Microsoft's reply was, "yes,
there are bugs in that code. You'll have to track them down and write your own
patches."

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