Medieval secrets behind Microsoft research

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Microsoft has not invented...

anything. So their research is obviously nothing more than a money pit.

While talking to two programmers last week the state of Microsoft's software came up. Mind you, both are Microsoft proponents and program for the Microsoft environment. What was interesting is at the same time both spoke out, "Microsoft has copied everything." As a system administrator, there is no surprise here. When MS released AD, I had already been using Novell's Directory Services. And as PC magazine stated in an article, AD was a copy of Novell's directory services. There was no learning curve when implementing AD. This is just one example. My programmer friend went on to talk about everything MS has copied from their perspective.

It actually appears that MS researches how to copy and not how to innovate. So I agree, if MS did away with their research there would be no great loss. Their research has not come up with anything new.

Posted by: bjbrock   Posted on: 05/12/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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