re: What’s Innovative about Microsoft

DrRez — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:06:58 GMT

Yes, I think you hit on something key here.

Only the innovators and technical folks care about what's "under the hood" of any new product offering. Regular folks care about what might be called the "coolness factor." Is it cool? Does it change my life in a really cool way? Analytical folks tend to forget that the human animal is driven by emotion, not intellect. This is scientific fact.

It matters to me, for instance that my new netbook is red and the tiny mouse matches. My digital camera is elegant and fits beautifully into the curve of my hand. It also takes phenomental photos, but you see where I'm going here. I have long thought that when a product or a company fails to wow the marketplace, it's at least partially because they have failed to engage the imagination and the heart.

The era of social media we are now in will reveal the power of one-to-one connection/communication, bottom-up messaging, sharing, and listening. I think Microsoft can excel on this new playing field.

Products I LOVE that have changed my life in dramatically cool ways? OCS! SharePoint, Outlook, Windows7, OneNote.

re: What’s Innovative about Microsoft

Rajan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:46:56 GMT

What about those multi touch screen systems which can interact with multiple interfaces? , saw a video on Popular Mechanics about the same.. it was mind blowing !

And now the way Microsoft has embraced Cloud Computing with promise to support multiple languages, is something very futuristic ..

And not to forget BING! , specifically Bing Video search is awesome ,, man !! the list goes on and on ..