Re: MS Office for Intel Mac?

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On 26/5/06 15:32, in article
labolide-E4F1DE.07321226052006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Kurt"
<labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <uO3MkZBgGHA.4276@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jim Gordon <goldkey74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Kurt wrote:

Amazing that a multi-billion dollar company can only get it together to
fix a major problem when one man (a volunteer) takes it upon himself to
troubleshoot it.


You raise an interesting point, which leads to lots of other notable things.

Troubleshooting is a tricky business in computers. There are many
variables to complicate things. It takes a set of circumstances that can
be elucidated and then replicated for the engineers to figure out what's
wrong and then to correct the problem.

Ys, but it seems to me that primary obligation of a software company
should be to produce the most bug-free software they have the resources
to produce. We're talking billions and billions of dollars to work with,
not two guys in a garage.

Not really. Like most, if not all, multi-nationals, Microsoft is divided up
into divisions & business units. Each of these business units has its own
goals and target markets, and has to demonstrate profitability in that
market. The Mac Market is not the biggest area that MS is operating in and
doesn't control all of Microsoft's many billions.

Makes it sounds like only 5 people work in the Mac division, and they
make them work in the shed out back, with leftover resources.

Heh! No, it's not as bad as that! They have a perfectly acceptable building
on the MS campus in Redmond (see here: <http://tinyurl.com/muw9p>) and
another facility in Silicon Valley. In total they employ about 200 hundred
people (see here: <http://tinyurl.com/nkpzx>. They do serve up some
exceptionally good software, and I have heard it said (but can't
substantiate with any documented information) that hey are one of the most
productive Bus in MS when you look at the sales they generate for the
resources they consume.


The only thing I can think of is that the entire company is scrambling
to fix Vista.


Well, Vista is certainly eating into more of those billions than Office:Mac
ever will, but the profit potential in vista is also significantly bigger!
That seems to be a sensible balance :)


--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html>

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