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Originally Posted by Livvy
That is the issue MS are faced with .The way they develop anything ( OS or new office version or whatever ) hasn't evolved at all . Thus you see MS running one step behind lots of other companies - just check the battle with Google , Google's staff has the instinct to buy into what will be hot tomorrow whilst MS tends to try buying what is hot now - it's also something good old B. Gates has commented on .
Lack of true innovation ( not just innovating the product but how the product is developed ) is always fatal in the long term.
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Exactly. Finally, somebody else who is willing to figure out what they are talking about first before actually talking. Man, I swear, certain people never bother to do any research... It just kills me inside.
Windows Vista was the largest software project in history. It involved thousands of people for like a freaking decade and I will even go as far as to say that Vista was a success.
But the problem is, Microsoft should've carefully reevaluated how they developed their product instead of just expanding on what they had. Instead of saying "what is the problem and how can we address it" they just hired more people and added more layers to the hierarchy. When one employee wants to make a change or discovers a bug or something, he has to send an email to his superior for approval who has to send it to his superiors for approval and the list keeps going up until it gets to the guy who can actually approve it. Just for where I work, with maybe 3 or 4 layers, the top manager gets like 150 emails an hour and she still has to do her own work too. Now imagine that same thing with maybe 10 layers. It's not bad, it's a catastrophe. And the entire time, that employee is sitting their, twiddling his thumbs waiting for his approval.