Is Microsoft ignoring its own medicine?

The Economic Times ^ | 11/10/05 * (They're GMT + 6) | ?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

SEATTLE: Microsoft promises its software will make people better workers — more productive, more profitable, more able, as the company likes to say, to achieve their potential. Yet some wonder why the software behemoth isn’t taking more of its own medicine.

As Microsoft hits 30, critics reel off a list of complaints that sounds like, well, a Microsoft commercial: stifling bureaucracy, frustrating miscommunication, different units working on overlapping technology without adequate cooperation. In short, the very ills promises to cure with its software.

Growing pains have delayed products, leaving the door open for Microsoft to be beaten to market by younger, more nimble competitors led by

Meanwhile, Microsoft shares have been trading at about the same level for several years. As it gears up to release a slew of new products, Microsoft is trying to untangle bureaucratic snags with a corporate shakeup meant to get the best ideas to market faster and increase the company’s push toward over-the-Internet software and services.

[drlevy88]

Big secret: they build Windows on Linux

[Utopia]

LOL! Microsoft has many, many computer labs in the various buildings that make up "Microsoft". I can't speak for all of them -- only the one area that I know about (first hand). A contractor installed Linux on a spare machine in one of the computer labs and was fired the next day.

The Penguin and his kind are not welcome there.

[clyde asbury]

Fat, Dumb and Happy bump.

[zeugma]

FireFox + the flashblock extension makes the site almost bearable.