- Posted by
scott
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May 19, 2008
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A few weeks ago, I had the chance to attend DevConnections 2008 in Orlando, FL. I spoke to a Microsoft Pro by the name of Steven Toub. He works for Microsoft in the parallel computing labs. He currently is designing PLINQ which is a parallel operations for LINQ. He said in the next 9 years, he expects 100 Core machines to be out on the market and Microsoft has vowed NOT to make any software for 32 bit machines anymore from today on.
It is interesting to see Microsoft take this route and not develop for single cores anymore and I am questing what can that do for their market. I only think make it better. There are rumors out there that Microsoft doesn't innovate anymore. I think some of the rumors are true to some markets of software, but in other markets Microsoft leads the pack. Microsoft does have a problem with its Internet technology and they just released Microsoft Mesh which allows for a computer desktop to be visualized on the Internet Browser. Pretty impressive stuff which shows that they can innovate in some areas, but very little in others. I think the main reason Microsoft doesn't innovate as much in Americans eyes nor in the Europeans eyes because they are in disgust of the the giant gorilla in the room and there for less and less Americans go to work for them. Its all about Yahoo and Google and working for those folks. Americas top innovators have moved from Microsoft to Google in a big jump that took about 5 years. They saw that Google actually had money to spend and it is also a great place to work. I don't know about Microsoft's working conditions, but Google is supposedly the cream of the crop for developers.
The entire discussion is wether Microsoft can still innovate in the next couple of years. I for one enjoy Microsoft's products and the PLINQ will be a gem for them that Google doesn't currently have yet.
Can Microsoft keep up with the Innovations?
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