Comments on: What You Get is What Microsoft Sees http://austinmatzko.com/2005/10/10/what-you-get-is-what-microsoft-sees/ A blog about philosophy, Christianity, web development and whatever else I feel like writing about. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2-RC4-18391 By: manthano http://austinmatzko.com/2005/10/10/what-you-get-is-what-microsoft-sees/comment-page-1/#comment-175 manthano Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:22:39 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/?p=154#comment-175 Open Office 2.0 will be out soon... Open Office 2.0 will be out soon…

]]> By: JRC http://austinmatzko.com/2005/10/10/what-you-get-is-what-microsoft-sees/comment-page-1/#comment-174 JRC Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:08:09 +0000 http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/?p=154#comment-174 Reading the extended quotation you cite, I formed the same mental picture: the Einstein guy, the barking dog or the paper clip taking a more involved role in my creative process. Yikes! At least we <i>know</i> not to expect user-based design and utility testing from Microsoft. Interesting point about being too feature rich: Adobe has the junkies to provide a market for continued software updates with little true change; Microsoft doesn't exactly have that following. Reading the extended quotation you cite, I formed the same mental picture: the Einstein guy, the barking dog or the paper clip taking a more involved role in my creative process. Yikes!

At least we know not to expect user-based design and utility testing from Microsoft. Interesting point about being too feature rich: Adobe has the junkies to provide a market for continued software updates with little true change; Microsoft doesn’t exactly have that following.

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