Comments on VillainousMind, Inc.: Is microsoft actually innovating?

They were the first one of the major browsers to i...

2009-06-04T00:47:54.158-04:00

They were the first one of the major browsers to implement seperate processes for tabs to prevent whole browser crashing. Yes, they had it BEFORE Chrome.

Also, look at Microsoft Research.

Yeah, I know. After I posted this and then posted...

2009-06-03T19:18:46.334-04:00

Yeah, I know. After I posted this and then posted the link it came to light that someone else created the hardware.

But as many people have stated, here and on Hacker News, innovation isn't completely starting from scratch: it is finding the right way to implement, and according to Engadget Microsoft seems to have really taken the tech farther than the original with their software implementation.

Your second example is Microsoft buying a company....

2009-06-03T18:58:37.648-04:00

Your second example is Microsoft buying a company. How is that Microsoft innovating? Surely that's the company they bought innovating. Buying companies is not a Microsoft innovation.

You are correct - and proving my point. Microsoft...

2009-06-03T18:52:55.309-04:00

You are correct - and proving my point. Microsoft doesn't innovate: they simply make a Microsoft version of other companies' tech.

Actually, it was Handspring who decided a shrunken...

2009-06-03T17:55:01.790-04:00

Actually, it was Handspring who decided a shrunken computer (which they already had licensed from Palm) would be a nice fit with a cell-phone when they invented the first Treo.

It was either that or IBM with their then very impressing Simon.

Microsoft had nothing to do with it.

I think you quoted it right. It's all in the ...

2009-06-03T16:06:43.844-04:00

I think you quoted it right. It's all in the eye of the beholder. Having coded both Java and C#, I can definitely say C# has some features over Java. I recall an instructor for an advanced web services class saying how C# developers "had it easy" because they can deploy with a wizard where for Java the WDSL was hand-coded.

There are pros and cons to each side, but to say that some features were not enhanced would be equally, laughably wrong.

.NET is an "enhancement" to Java? Erm, ...

2009-06-03T15:54:23.845-04:00

.NET is an "enhancement" to Java?

Erm, no. Laughably wrong.