http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/02/on-moving-worlds/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:19:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/02/on-moving-worlds/comment-page-1/#comment-1423 abel santos Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:32:54 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2006/02/on-moving-worlds/#comment-1423 I quite agree with you, microsoft is an easy target to get at, mostly due to their business practices & the problems of the broad implementation of their software, but from little glimpses I have occasinally seen from the company they do have many developers working on innovative ideas, even if probably most don't come out, or will take a large amount of time. It's much easier for a smaller company ( or required ) to innovate, because the product is new for it's clients, than a monolithic company to change because it's users will always resent much of it, also it's easier for the scope of their vision to not be diluted since the size makes the focus easier to maintain. I actually believe microsoft has entered a new stage in the way it develops software increasingly seeking to learn from it's users, and develop a closer relation with them, indubitably resulting in better software. Office 2007 i believe is a good example of this attitude, & the machine behind it's development is huge, wich makes it easy to imagine how easy it must be for ideas to become lost underneath the oiled powerful machine. I also hope the new products will also make it easier for smaller companies to innovate on top of the new platforms microsoft develops, and wish they would adopt a different attitude on how they bundle their product swith the OS. But alas nothing is perfect! I quite agree with you, microsoft is an easy target to get at, mostly due to their business practices & the problems of the broad implementation of their software, but from little glimpses I have occasinally seen from the company they do have many developers working on innovative ideas, even if probably most don’t come out, or will take a large amount of time. It’s much easier for a smaller company ( or required ) to innovate, because the product is new for it’s clients, than a monolithic company to change because it’s users will always resent much of it, also it’s easier for the scope of their vision to not be diluted since the size makes the focus easier to maintain.
I actually believe microsoft has entered a new stage in the way it develops software increasingly seeking to learn from it’s users, and develop a closer relation with them, indubitably resulting in better software. Office 2007 i believe is a good example of this attitude, & the machine behind it’s development is huge, wich makes it easy to imagine how easy it must be for ideas to become lost underneath the oiled powerful machine.
I also hope the new products will also make it easier for smaller companies to innovate on top of the new platforms microsoft develops, and wish they would adopt a different attitude on how they bundle their product swith the OS. But alas nothing is perfect!

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