The problem with Microsoft

Somewhere down the way, Microsoft lost its soul. I now see it as a “has been” company where they copy whatever is cool out there and then announce new projects which they drop like hot balls after sometime. It is really pathetic what they have become. The only thing I like about Microsoft Software is their Visual Studio suite, but as everyone knows even though coding is easier, the end product is not.

Windows applications are slow, and WPF is a farce. Even silver light which is based on it is pathetic. I really wish MS had spent the time developing Script# into a real platform than wasting time on WPF. It would have been lovely to finally have an object oriented way to write client script for browsers. I love the fact that script# compiled to JavaScript. It is a really awesome idea which has been ignored by Microsoft because of vested interests, rather than technology.

I say this time and again and I will re-iterate once more, the failure of Microsoft to develop a proper phone OS with so much time on their hands, and the way Apple came up with the iPhone OS, and how MS shamelessly tries to emulate it now, so many years later.

C’mon... Apple has to show every other lousy phone OS maker that it makes sense to have a phone where its firmware can be updated for new releases and patches. This is not high science – it is purely what happens when technologists run a company to make better software compared to a bunch of business people trying to figure out how to crawl their way around by spending less and utilizing existing resources rather than coming up with a better solution which fits the problem.

The solution should fit the problem and not the other way around.

Software was made for humans, and not the other way around.....