Re:Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture Th...
by flyinRyan on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @11:52AM
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> the ribbon and Metro
When people talk about innovation I think they often mean disruption. The day the iPad came out everyone changed what they were doing (except MS). A light switched flipped and Tablets became something totally different than what they were before. Who has copied ribbon? Lots of people don't even think it's a good idea. Metro is too early to tell.
>or developing the .NET framework and the development of its associated tool chain
You mean a VM... like Java?
>If capacitive touch screen development is seen as a great leap forward by Microsoft's competitors, where does that put Kinect?
When people talk about innovation I think they often mean disruption. The day the iPad came out everyone changed what they were doing (except MS). A light switched flipped and Tablets became something totally different than what they were before. Who has copied ribbon? Lots of people don't even think it's a good idea. Metro is too early to tell.
>or developing the .NET framework and the development of its associated tool chain
You mean a VM... like Java?
>If capacitive touch screen development is seen as a great leap forward by Microsoft's competitors, where does that put Kinect?
You mean that product that MS bought?