A Microsoft Life by Stephen Toulouse

Author:Stephen Toulouse [Toulouse, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vl-nfcompvg
ISBN: 0557735297
Amazon: B004J8HQTC
Published: 2011-01-14T05:00:00+00:00

Its most common effect on individuals is to cause them to make design decisions based on the way customers should use products as opposed to how they actually use them, or by the interoperability of a product in the unique environment of the employee's home.

The field itself is invisible and exceedingly hard to detect, as once you are under its influence, reality itself becomes distorted. Entire Microsoft products have been designed under the influence of the field.

An example of one is the Microsoft Cordless Phone System, released in 1998. While the system itself was innovative and contained many unique features, like multiple voicemail boxes, customized answering machine messages for individual caller IDs, etc, the phone system required a dedicated computer be on at all times to enable its features. Due to the software's high resource demands and the fact it would only work with Windows 95 or Windows 98, it was assumed customers would dedicate a second PC to the phone, thus essentially asking a customer to commit a $500+ investment to make their new $100 phone work. The assumption was that customers either already had a high-end computer or a cast-off second computer, or would be willing to buy a second computer to make it work. This was based on the fact that almost every Microsoft employee in 1998 had two computers at home (not including work machines) due to our access to technology and tendency to be on the high curve of technology investment. Now? Well it's ten years later and I have five computers in my home, which I bet is on the low end of most MS people. Imagine what decisions are being made about the general state of home networks today thanks to the field!

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