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What Microsoft researches, and does very well, is to study their users and
make the applications user-friendly.  They respond better than most
companies to user actions.  MS studies how people use their products, and
gears their designs to be more intuitive.  MS is one of the first companies
to make products that don't need a manual in order for a user to be able to
use the product.

This is not innovation, like inventing hardware, but it is important, and MS
does it better than anyone.



 
 
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Booth Martin
http://www.martinvt.com
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From: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Date: 10/07/05 09:48:33
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Trend towards platform specific languages
 
Jon,
 
Not that I'm disagreeing with you about your feelings toward Microsoft,
but I don't know if I would go as far as saying that everything they did
was copied or stolen.  They have done plenty of research and development.
Surely you would count some of these as innovations:
 
http://tinyurl.com/am6x8
 
 
Mike
 
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/07/2005 09:16:47 AM:
 
> OK Steve - I can't resist.  Name a Microsoft innovation.  Apart from Bob
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