Until now, last week Microsoft announced they were going to again focus on this critical group of users the engineers and professional creators that, while small in numbers, are massive in terms of their impact on the world. Since then the server platform has become more focused on servers, consumers have been getting a ton of extra focus, but workstation users were still left out in the cold. Windows Server had to then overcome consumer messaging and elements, workstation users seemed to lose focus entirely, and desktop users got more complexity then they’d ever wanted or needed. That made sense from a cost standpoint but created problems for all three groups. But one that seemed to me to be one of the most foolish was to take Windows NT, which was initially uniquely focused on Servers and Workstations, and fold elements of Windows 9x into it to create a more common code base. Microsoft has made many critical mistakes over the years. ![]() Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.
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