The time for narrow-minded self-interest is over
This week it came to light that there have been senior people at Microsoft who have blocked, or tried to block new products from the company on the grounds that they hadn’t come from their own department. Now it’s widely known that different departments within Microsoft don’t talk to each other. Examples of this are SkyDrive and Mesh, two competing products that don’t interoperate, SkyDrive / Mesh and Office Online which don’t work together yet (though there is at least hope with this one as SkyDrive is being integrated into Office 2010), Zune and Windows, Windows and Windows Mobile, XBox and Windows Games… the list just goes on and on. Then let’s take Google, with one of the biggest portfolios of free and online applications, absolutely none of which talk to one another.
The full story can be found on Windows 7 News
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