[OS:N:] Developing for developers and users

[Jay Scherrer]

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Actually, developers were shooting common look and feel usage, when it comes 
to office applications. This way they reduce 
1. Time To Market and 
2. Shorter learning curve for new customers.
One way that they accomplised this was with standardized API's
The old "Why reinvent the wheel just make it a porche".

Jay

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 10:18 am, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 10:01:06AM -0400, Matt Frye wrote:
> > Point is, somewhere along the line, someone had to look at MS Office
> > and decided to build something that was, for all intents and purposes,
> > like it (but not it by invention).  It's wonderful that OO (or it's
> > predecessors) are feature rich and can export in all kinds of formats,
> > but that doesn't make it fundamentally different from MS Office.
>
> This thread is starting to imply that Microsoft actually invented the
> interface for MS Office.  I don't know any precise history of MS Office,
> but the way Microsoft works is to take other people's work (either by
> buyout, or simply by cloning...  I mean, shit... anyone remember Macintosh?
>  ... and yeah, even that was just a ripoff of the earlier PARC stuff)
>
> In some sense, it's not /trivial/ to make a /better/ mousetrap.  That's why
> so many mousetraps look the same.  Compare word processors from various
> vendors and across various platforms for the past 20 years, and you can
> easily argue they were all ripping each other's designs off, as well. :^)
>
> -bill!
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>
>
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