innovation

I learned, through an article by Robin Harris (ZDNet), that the current Microsoft Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie wishes for Microsoft to become an innovator. Chief Software Architect is the position that Mr. Gates used to occupy.
In the very first paragraph, Mr. Harris sums the situation very nicely -
Microsoft’s new Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie, [...]

Bill Gates is gone. For most, new computers with Windows XP are gone. Things with Vista are not much better than they were a year and a half ago. So, what is happening?
The Microsoft apologists are all coming out of the woodwork – it’s their time, Microsoft is not doing so well, after all, it [...]

The speculation and rumors circulating around the possible purchase of e-Bay by Microsoft shows that problem which has been the company’s Achilles’ heel from day one.
Microsoft has a real problem with innovation, and has always preferred to buy, and then modify, someone else’s code. The very first product out the door at Microsoft, before there [...]