If anything Microsoft should be doing more of this kind of thing, they should drop a lot of old legacy code and innovate. Certainly Vista is crippled by the fact that it's trying to have a foot in every camp and doing a poor job of it. They should have gone the same way they did with NT4, bare minimum of support for the old tech and streamline and pack in new features and methods.
Also make it clear to customers what you are doing and why.
They should make some big real changes to their architecture and then stick to them, all this incremental messing about is just annoying people and they get hit from both ends.
It's not like they haven't got the money or don't spend on RnD.
They had the balls to do it for Office 2007 and it worked, although I'm sure there were plenty of naysayers for that. MSO 2007 is the first real evolution in the Office Suite for years and it really is better.When people first move to MSO 2007 they hate it because it's different and they can't find things. If I offer people to back to their old version of Office after a few months with 2007 they always want to keep 2007 even if they still have a few small gripes about MSO 2007. So why not take the same approach for their OS?
Darkheart
Also make it clear to customers what you are doing and why.
They should make some big real changes to their architecture and then stick to them, all this incremental messing about is just annoying people and they get hit from both ends.
It's not like they haven't got the money or don't spend on RnD.
They had the balls to do it for Office 2007 and it worked, although I'm sure there were plenty of naysayers for that. MSO 2007 is the first real evolution in the Office Suite for years and it really is better.When people first move to MSO 2007 they hate it because it's different and they can't find things. If I offer people to back to their old version of Office after a few months with 2007 they always want to keep 2007 even if they still have a few small gripes about MSO 2007. So why not take the same approach for their OS?
Darkheart