Imagining a day without Microsoft

Imagining a day without Microsoft | InfoWorld | Column | 2006-05-23 | By Ephraim Schwartz: "Bostick says that because Microsoft has, over the years, standardized its user interface across its product line, it’s easy to find what you need. Compare that to Adobe Premiere Pro for video editing, which has a ton of switches, but you have to know about them and where they are. “Microsoft kind of standardized the place they put stuff so you can find it.”

It is not an accident that Microsoft and its hardball tactics have succeeded all these years. They did not happen accidentally. Like the roots of a plant searching for water, the high-tech industry itself created Microsoft in order to survive."