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| Time: 10:01 EST/15:01 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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When it comes to improving the spelling checker in Word or finding new ways to draw charts in Excel, Microsoft probably has things covered. But to figure out the broad changes needed for its venerable Office software, Microsoft is turning to an Indian medical student, an aspiring architect from Kenya and 13 other young adults from across the globe. |
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| #1 By 143 (64.108.88.101) at Monday, June 21, 2004 11:04:17 AM |
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OpenOffice.org is coming along... How much is MS Office?
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| #2 By 8556 (12.217.161.21) at Monday, June 21, 2004 06:34:58 PM |
| Great. Now we'll get more ridiculous words suggested. ACT!, written in India, insists that "to" when misspelled as "ot" should be "OT". MS should use people whose native language is English. Wait, maybe these new people were hired to fix wacky misspellings in foreign language versions of Office. Anything for free publicity, it seems. |
| #3 By 1643 (64.73.227.129) at Monday, June 21, 2004 08:13:27 PM |
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#1 It's more than OO, but it is also well tested, doesn't crash as much, has tons of features (though you may not use them all), and is supported by one of the largest software companies that have avested interest in making it a best in class product.
#2 They should, i agree. #4 Microsoft normally has teams planning N+1 and sometimes N+2 to the currently version under development (especially in OS's) |
| #4 By 1643 (64.73.227.129) at Monday, June 21, 2004 09:14:23 PM |
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There may be more than one product planning team (N, N+1, N+2). Obviously most of the resources would be working on N.
humor |
| #5 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:22:25 AM |
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Your comments are pointless and made up. They are not a marketing ploy, planning teams are used to develop feature sets based on market and customer feedback. Do you understand what that means #9?
Bloat? That's your opinion, yet millions of people disagree with you because nobody forced them from office 2000 to office xp/2003. Some people are capable of using the advanced features, Enterprise collaboration, research integration to corporate knowledge, work flow, templates...etc. Maybe they should...but, maybe those "bugs" (I'm assuming the CSS variety) are a minority definition of a bug. Remember, changing what you define as bugs would require hundreds of thousands of man hours to test, verify, and correct any page layout issues that would be affected all over the world. I just don't think you see the big picture. humor |
| #6 By 1643 (204.210.30.241) at Tuesday, June 22, 2004 03:31:30 AM |
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No, they determined that users want a consistent interface, developers wanted extensibility, and Microsoft provided. Pop-ads are an invasion of privacy caused by malicious companies installed on the request of the user (user error)...and now it's harder for the user to make the error.
Your right, bad code can crash a system...on any platform. They were trying to win the browser and server wars...and there was the Mac. And yes, a company guessed (based on research) what customer's wanted. Let's string 'em up and hang um!! </sarcasm> MS is a very customer driven company, it's changes move even faster today. That is why MS is so succesful...it's ever changing. "these amazing new OSS alternatives "...get a clue kid. You have no story, only screams of loneliness. humor |
