Woody leonhard5/12/2023 Moore’s Law is over, a temporary concept. It appears that innovation was unsustainable. ![]() (Note: I don’t consider OS X in 2021 as an innovation driver it and Windows do all of the same things, a bit different, each side sometimes better or worse, but both reinventing the wheel without anything groundbreaking in some time).Īs someone who is probably around fifteen years from retirement, I can say that while I’ve loved tech for much of my currently-26-year career, there’s a lot less to love now. The user doesn’t have to matter much any more after all, “what choice do they have but to use our stuff, especially Outlook, Excel, and Windows?” I long for the days of exciting tech advancements where computer evolution exploded every twelve to sixteen months this and competing products in every field drove innovation. Slow stagnation of other technologies in the past ten years and lack of a competing x86 operating systems with solid business support for far more than that have allowed Microsoft to stagnate as well. And other technologies were evolving faster, forcing Microsoft to do more to adopt and incorporate them. While fading, other Office suites existed: WordPerfect (later Corel PerfectOffice), Lotus SmartSuite, and others. Non-x86 hardware gave more options than just Apple. ![]() This was back at a time when there was still a very real potential for other operating systems to rise (OS/2, BeOS, NeXT, MacOS, OS X, Sun SuperSPARCs were real, etc.). But they were real advances in technology, as was Windows 2000. Microsoft will not rise to the challenge until they have a competitor that forces them to do so.
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