A set of people were asked what they think is bad on Windows Vista during the Mojave Experiment. Their answers were recorded.  They were then shown "Microsoft Windows Mojave", a new operating system that impressed everyone.

Microsoft then revealed "Windows Mojave" and "Windows Vista" are the same one.

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/

PS: OK, you can't please everyone...

These days I've been questioning many people inside Microsoft and I've found an absolutely good answer to it. It's interesting the comparision behind it. Maybe now people can start understanding some points.

You can find the article in (Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software-) and an interesting complimentary of it is this one in Jon Galloway's blog. Read this interesting excerpt:

"Let's say Microsoft took my advice and shipped Paint.NET as a Windows Vista Ultimate Extra. Unbeknownst to Microsoft - or even the Paint.NET project leads - a project contributor had copied some GPL code and included it in a patch submission (either out of ignorance or as with malice aforethought). Two years later, a competitor runs a binary scan for GPL code and serves Microsoft with a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Microsoft is forced to pay eleventy bajillion dollars and damages. Perhaps even worse, they're hit with an injunction which prevents selling the offending application, which requires recalling shrinkwrapped boxes and working with computer vendors who've got the software pre-installed on computers in their inventory. All for shipping a simple paint program."

Here's a great article (http://1-800-magic.blogspot.com/2008/06/back-to-microsoft.html) of Sergey Solyanik who left Google and is back to Microsoft.  His views are rather interesting and you can found some below.

So why did I leave?
There are many things about Google that are not great, and merit improvement. There are plenty of silly politics, underperformance, inefficiencies and ineffectiveness, and things that are plain stupid. I will not write about these things here because they are immaterial. I did not leave because of them. No company has achieved the status of the perfect workplace, and no one ever will.

On the other hand, in my year at Google, I could not figure out what was it they were doing. The better manager that I had collected feedback from my peers and gave it to me. There was no other (observable by me) impact on Google. The worse manager that I had did not do even that, so for me as a manager he was a complete no-op. I asked quite a few other engineers from senior to senior staff levels that had spent far more time at Google than I, and they didn't know either. I am not making this up!

On the other hand, I was using Google software - a lot of it - in the last year, and slick as it is, there's just too much of it that is regularly broken. It seems like every week 10% of all the features are broken in one or the other browser. And it's a different 10% every week - the old bugs are getting fixed, the new ones introduced. This across Blogger, Gmail, Google Docs, Maps, and more.

Letter from Steve Balmer to Jerry Wang: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/may08/05-03letter.mspx

The question, what's next?

Microsoft developed a free web application that it allows to define transit routes based on crossing of some information, helping the drivers to run away from the areas with more movement.

The ClearFlow service was developed in the last five years by specialized investigators of Microsoft in artificial intelligence and it is based on the adaptation of techniques of learning for machines. The goal is to use some types of information that can influence flowing of the transit to identify alternative passages. This method allows in such a way to access more necessary routes in highways as in ways in the cities.

The application goes to be available in maps.Live.com vestibule and will cover initially 72 cities of U.S.A. Let's see when it comes to Portugal.

For more information it reads this article of New York Times.