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Gates Puts Faith In "Microsoft Innovation" - Isn't That That an Oxymoron?

Kevin's article has all the confidence of attacking Microsoft crisply after the clear Vista disaster, New Coke in different clothes, that Microsoft refuses to dump. Monday would be a good day for it, if not today, Sunday. The emperor with no clothes.

When Microsoft destroyed folks, Kevin's clear and accurate term, "they" had waffled--Apple/Xerox, the classic; Netscape; Word Perfect, way too complex; Lotus, way too complex.

Now the players have emphasized the simple, crisp, and agile--where Microsoft used to win. Google is just...plain magnificent. Google docs is our latest discovery; enterprise list with no fuss. Gmail; search; and on and on and on. iPhone has made the PC the non-center of our corporate life--Safari, didn't even know what it "was" for about a month. Why? It worked so well.

Our retailers want openoffice.org in a non-geeky way; we couldn't make old office work on our Vista test machine (we hate Vista; our customers hate Vista, but we gotta figure it out--as it bobs and weaves through its chaos), so downloaded openoffice.org--and that was the end of that problem.

Working on the old 98 yesterday and was stunned by its elegance (OK, not MAC folks, but so much better than Vista, better than XP, and somewhat better than 2000--as they all get worse).

Microsoft is the new Sears. Big; irrelevant.

Kevin, why haven't they invented anything? What is that??

Great article.