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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!edwardj
- From: edwardj@microsoft.com (Edward Jung)
- Subject: Re: End of the Year (was Re: End of NeXT)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan04.002408.1206@microsoft.com>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 00:24:08 GMT
- Organization: Strategy Division, Microsoft Corp.
- References: <1993Jan01.044049.29061@microsoft.com> <1993Jan2.150211.2250@qb.rhein-main.de>
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- vhs@rhein-main.de writes:
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- >Designed by lusers - Ack! So there is nobody at MS with enough vision
- >to really improv(tm) end-user productivity except maybe for the guys
- >working on the caleida project which is likely to be outdated when
- >and if it comes to market?
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- It's a general rule of marketing that it isn't so bad if the
- design of products happens from user specifications... but
- you are correct... this is not the way that you get alot of
- innovation.
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- Kaleida is a joint project between IBM and Apple. Microsoft
- is not involved in Kaleida -- we have a different project
- for information at your fingertips multimedia and portable
- and consumer computing issues.
-
- >Just tell me one thing: Will caleida's GUI look like windoze 3?
- >MS can't alienate phantastillions of people that are used to it =}8*#
-
- In fact a major new release of Windows will significantly
- change the user interface. Hopefully we will not alienate
- all those current Windows users with this new interface,
- and the pain of change will be mitigated by the added
- functionality, especially for information-oriented tasks
- and network operations.
-
-
- --
- Edward Jung, Software Architect edwardj@microsoft.com
- Advanced Systems, Microsoft Corp.
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