Microsoft and Innovation
August 28, 2005 Posted by mitch | microsoft, technology | 0 Comments
For atleast a year, Microsoft has been announcing that we need software patents because they are needed to protect innovation(no doubt they mean their own innovation). However, I'm really having a hard time figuring out just what they've ever innovated? Apple... they have many to their name, and Windows Media Center is not an innovation... Its a best effort copy of Tivo. And MythTV has been extending that original innovation into more... which could be argued as innovation in its own right... What exactly has Microsoft innovated? Their new graphics rendering engine(Avalon) for Vista? Nope... at best it extends whats already in Mac OS X(cocoa?). A database that is the filesystem(when its eventually released), nope been done already, say IBM AS/400. As I said... having a hard time thinking of one thing Microsoft has ever innovated on (technology wise only). So if any of you know please let me know by all means.
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