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InfoWorld: "Microsoft's Bill Gates kicked off the company's annual Financial Analysts Day here Thursday by announcing the company will boost R&D spending by 20 percent from $4.3 billion in FY 02 to $5.2 billion in FY 03." They spend so much on R&D, and get so little in return. [Scripting News]
Comment: Granted a project like Palladium is enormous, complex, and requires expensive expertise. But from a new product development and innovation standpoint, the Microsoft culture must be about as flexible as your typical government agency. What seems to be totally missing is fast, iterative development.
This is the sign that they simply don't have a developer mentality anymore, and it gives NO place for third party developers to plug in. Iterative public development of smaller tools at the edge of creativity allows people to validate, challenge, and improve. It is a sign of health. It's absence is a sign of stagnation and parochialism.
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