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To: Pierre-X who wrote (43570)	1/2/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Pierre-X - Re: "Microsoft, which always seems to require at least 3 iterations of a product to arrive at something useful." In general, I agree with this. However, I liken Microsoft to many Japanese concerns in this regard. They may not always get it "right" the first time, but they continue to improve the product over time until the product succeeds. They don't usually give up! As far as "legions" of talent - one "genius" can outdo legions of programmers. Perhaps Microsoft has very few of these geniuses. Paul

To: Pierre-X who wrote (43570)	1/2/1998 5:22:00 PM
From: Gary G. Withrow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Pierre, re I'd give them better odds at doing a good job of it than Microsoft, which always seems to require at least 3 iterations of a product to arrive at something useful. I spent most of the last 3 1/2 years doing development work using Mac/OS, and we referred to MacsBug as a screen saver because it comes up so often. I've used v7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.3, 7.5.5, 7.6, and OS/8, so I think they would be doing a lot better if they could get it right in only three iterations. I particularly enjoyed their dropping AOCE (PowerTalk) support in v7.6 after I had spent a lot of time developing software using it for event notification software across the network. regards Gary