Demon-Xanth
Lifer
I've been noticing an increasing amount of MS-centricness to the point that it reminds me of the IBM-centricness that brought about the saying "Noone ever got fired for buying IBM". It seems like if there is an MS product vs. a long standing, known good one, the MS one is the safe way out regardless of the competitors track record, performance, or even MS's product's performance.
An example of this is in the company I work for we use virtually every MS program that isn't a game, even if it's not really needed. But people (including MIS) are afraid to see what else is out there. When the question comes up "What software would be best for ___" the reply is almost always "What does MS have that should work?". The only place I see this derrived is in high end software where personal preference on the user's part takes over (ie: ProE, AutoCAD, OrCAD...)
Once IBM was basically out of the standards picture the PC industry seemed to flourish. But now that MS is the near-undisputed king, the software seems to have lulled down to "new UI, same old crap". Granted the hardware industry has been storming the last few years in the wake of the rekindled AMD vs. Intel war (notice the sudden climb from PC100 SDRAM to DDR-333 and dual channel RDRAM)
Is this an impending doom and gloom scenario or am I overracting?
An example of this is in the company I work for we use virtually every MS program that isn't a game, even if it's not really needed. But people (including MIS) are afraid to see what else is out there. When the question comes up "What software would be best for ___" the reply is almost always "What does MS have that should work?". The only place I see this derrived is in high end software where personal preference on the user's part takes over (ie: ProE, AutoCAD, OrCAD...)
Once IBM was basically out of the standards picture the PC industry seemed to flourish. But now that MS is the near-undisputed king, the software seems to have lulled down to "new UI, same old crap". Granted the hardware industry has been storming the last few years in the wake of the rekindled AMD vs. Intel war (notice the sudden climb from PC100 SDRAM to DDR-333 and dual channel RDRAM)
Is this an impending doom and gloom scenario or am I overracting?
