Re:A Microsoft Without Sinofsky?
by kevin_morrill on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:34AM
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I did when I worked there. The return on investment relative to what the product groups were creating was off the charts. I was all for taking the money and talent to think about long term issues, but it was just distasteful how poorly value was captured from it.
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Re:A Microsoft Without Sinofsky?
by CamperBob2 on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @03:25AM
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It's no secret that the idea behind Microsoft Research is to keep the talent from working anywhere else. They don't have to ship a darned thing, as long as Google, Apple, or Sun don't either.
I got that impression during an interview with them in Cambridge in 2005. They genuinely couldn't promise that anything that was done was going to end up in a product or would actually be used.
Fortunately I was too crap to be considered a threat if I wasn't hired :)