Microsoft, on the Verge
Thursday, August 24th, 2006It seems to me that Microsoft has changed quite a bit the past few years. The company grew too quickly and earned a bad reputation for several years, and over the past few years have made strides in changing their ways. The phrase I often hear applied to Microsoft is "over sell and under deliver" which was due to Microsoft's marketing teams making promises that their research and development teams were unable to deliver.
It appears that the research and development teams are now wearing the pants. I have personally been quite happy with Windows Server 2003 and the .NET 2.0 framework. It is stable and modular enough for me to turn off the bits I do not want active, such as the Frontpage extensions. It is still not nearly what I want it to be, but I am seeing efforts pushing it in the right direction.
