Comment Re:deservedly (Score 2, Interesting) 361
>>> having hired ..... 250 computer science PhD candidates in Redmond alone..."
this is the problem. i dont know how many of you ahve worked with CS doctorates, but they are some of the most obtuse people i know, and dont generally have any idea what it is the average person wants or needs. (which, imho is what drives this industry)
contrast this with apple, who employ top knotch designers to come up with the ideas, and then hire the big brains to implement it.
a good example might be apple's new 'time machine' feature which allows for incremental backups and easy recovery. technically MS has had somethign like this for a while now (probably designed by some giant-brained CS PhD) but it is not very user friendly (so not user friendly that i had never even heard of it because nobody i know uses it) whereas, apple took that concept and actualyl made it 'useful' to the general populous, and that i think is where technological innovation is.
(i am not an apple fanboi, just using them as a contrast to MS, i think there are tons of innovative companies out there, but i have to honestly say that i dont believe MS is one of them, they might create/invent new technologies, but innovation requires a little something extra that MS seems a bit short on)
this is the problem. i dont know how many of you ahve worked with CS doctorates, but they are some of the most obtuse people i know, and dont generally have any idea what it is the average person wants or needs. (which, imho is what drives this industry)
contrast this with apple, who employ top knotch designers to come up with the ideas, and then hire the big brains to implement it.
a good example might be apple's new 'time machine' feature which allows for incremental backups and easy recovery. technically MS has had somethign like this for a while now (probably designed by some giant-brained CS PhD) but it is not very user friendly (so not user friendly that i had never even heard of it because nobody i know uses it) whereas, apple took that concept and actualyl made it 'useful' to the general populous, and that i think is where technological innovation is.
(i am not an apple fanboi, just using them as a contrast to MS, i think there are tons of innovative companies out there, but i have to honestly say that i dont believe MS is one of them, they might create/invent new technologies, but innovation requires a little something extra that MS seems a bit short on)
