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MIX OR MAX THE DASHBOARD METAPHOR by Michael Osborne

© Copyright 1997 by Michael Osborne. All rights reserved.

MICROSOFT'S WEAKNESSES IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT by Michael A. Cusumano and Richard W. Selby

In our 1995 book, Microsoft Secrets, we wrote about what Microsoft does well, ranging from the company strategy and organization to the management of people and software development [2].

MICROSOFT DEVELOPER TOOLS USABILITY: DESIGNING IN INTERNET TIME by Karl Melder © Copyright 1997 by Karl Melder.
MONKEY SPECTACLES: AN ALLEGORICAL TALE by Paul A. Strassman

Long, long ago, in a distant land, a brilliant bunch of monkeys discovered a new and luscious fruit. The only problem was that it was hard to see and therefore to collect.

IT Performance Engineering with Measurement

The IT organization of today must deal with rates of technology and business change that were unheard of in other decades. In fact, the rate of change is accelerating, and an organization has to do more than just cope with such change, it must also leverage it.

 

As corporate IT groups turn from mainframes to networked component-based systems, and from proprietary to commodity hardware and software, they create significant business opportunities for Microsoft. Microsoft has an established, flexible, and focused consulting group and an evolving set of enterprise services to approach those opportunities.

 

MEASUREMENT AND THE YEAR 2000: FACT, FICTION, AND FABRICATIONS by Howard Rubin

The provider and tool world seem to thrive on conversion-related metrics, and now that many companies are moving into the conversion phase of the year-2000 process, vendors are rushing forward with

LEARNING FROM MICROSOFT by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holtzblatt

What makes a successful company work? It's just smart business to learn good ways of working from successful companies and adapt them to your own situation.