One of the funniest thing I have ever heard today is that Ballmer, the “Windows, Windows, Windows” and “Developer, Developer, Developer” shouting guy, said that Microsoft is going to compete with Google by the old-fashioned way: with innovation. He said:
Microsoft is “at the beginning of 12 months of the greatest innovation pipeline we have ever had,” Ballmer said. “Vista, Office, Windows Mobile, (Internet Explorer) IE 7…I can point to a lot of things. We are in the middle of the best pipeline we have ever had as a company.”
Vista is copying Mac OS X but clumsily in many ways: dirty and blurring non-sense tranparency, non-sense and useless and anti-efficient thumbnail everywhere, video playing in thumbnail, “gadgets”(although Apple might have copied it somewhere else but Apple has Dashboard first then comes “Gadgets”), metal-brushing the explorer and combine the toolbar with title bar…
One of the IE’s most advertised “innovation” is the new tabbed browsing which has been existed for a long long time. I can do that even in Opera 5(first Opera browswer I used).
I am not saying Google is very innovative. However, when M$ is talking about innovation, “every human being on earth burst into laughter”.
Read more here about Ballmer’s lies.