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Msdos? The product that made the company what it is today? Bought from Seattle Computer Products.
Excel? Bought.
Windows? Developed at PARC (1970-1975,) developers hired by Apple for the Lisa (started in 1978,) and MicroSoft copied it and jumped in with Windows 3.0 ... in 1990.
There are some first class people doing first class work but management insistence on a 3 month pay-back time horizon shoots the ability to sit and think and fail. Which is the sina qua non of research. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
There are some first class people doing first class work but management insistence on a 3 month pay-back time horizon shoots the ability to sit and think and fail. Which is the sina qua non of research.
Besides, one of the dirty little secrets of publication is that as long as your paper is intelligible, you can usually find a journal that will publish it after a couple of tries. In a pinch, you can submit it as a conference poster. So there are safety valves for failed projects, although of course they should not be called upon too often.
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
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