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Anil Dashes A Reply To Frank Hilario’s
Anil Dash writes 15 January 2007 in his self-titled blogsite these not-very-flattering lines:
I found Frank Hilario’s rant entitled Microsoft’s Mr Bill Gates And The Boy Who Cried Worp to be largely incoherent, but from what I could deduce, he thinks my assessment of Microsoft Office 2007 is off-base. Actually, he says:
If you can’t beat them, don’t join them; instead, change the rules of the game. That’s what Worperer Microsoft did with full essay
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December 2nd, 2007 at 7:27 am
[...] If you can’t beat them, don’t join them; instead, change the rules of the game. That’s what Worperer Microsoft did with Word 2007, Paul Thurrott (2006, cited) says. Yes. Anil Dash (2006, cited) says: ‘By radically changing the user interface in Office 2007, Microsoft made the riskiest bet in the history of commercial software. And I think they’re going to win the bet.’ Wanna bet? The full essay [...]