The problem isn't so much in the lack of talent I don't think. Consider the
misplaced hope in certain FLOSS members who went to work for Microsoft to
discover that was a waste of their time.
The biggest problem - one that
over-rides tons of talent - is the Corporate Culture.
The Culture that
wants the talent to work on improved vendor and customer lockin. The Culture
that wants to have the Law changed to make a computer that is sold without
Microsoft Windows actually criminal.
Anyone that has talent that proceeds
against the wishes of the Corporate Culture doesn't last long....
"irreconcilable differences". As a result, the bulk of the focus is on what
Microsoft believes is best to maintain their Monopoly rather than on producing
products and services people actually want. The user specifications aren't
coming from the software developers... other vendors.... or even the customers
themselves. The user specifications Microsoft focuses on are developed
internally by management.
Even after Governments the world over told
Microsoft that they wanted open source data formats because no one should be
blocked from accessing public information, or be forced to use a particular
vendors product in order to get to that information:
Microsoft produced
OOXML!
OOXML: little more then an XML wrapper around Microsoft's binary
format.
They're just not listening to their customers and it doesn't seem
they have any intent to do so any time soon. I guess they are just to used to a
decade where they actually controlled everything and could dictate their will -
just don't want to let that go even though it really is gone.
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