Word: smartness
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...Intelligence often breeds ambition, and this combination has harmed Microsoft. It has an over-abundance of smart people who have far too little to do. The company's core software divisions require a large number of software engineers and product development staff, but these people are primarily updating products in Microsoft's PC, server, and office Windows products. There may be some innovation in the creation of new versions of these offerings, but a great deal of the work is the equivalent of maintenance. (See pictures of Bill Gates: The Early Years...
...consumer electronic device or online search tool, but Microsoft has as good a chance, if not a better one, than any other company in the world at success. It has that better chance because it has tremendous cash flow to put into new enterprises and it employees thousand of smart people, who, without any hope that the company will ever move beyond Windows, might simply elect to leave...
...raised her. The differences do not end there, however. In her newest book, Not Becoming My Mother (and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way), Reichl examines her mom's old letters and explores her parent's ideas about young women (pretty is more important than smart) as well as her mother's bipolar disorder. Reichl talked to TIME about confessing dark secrets through memoir, why women should work and how the recession is affecting haute cuisine...
...platform to outside developers. That allowed programmers to create tiny applets that, in turn, made the service more useful and fun and pulled in more users. Blowing up the browser and letting the same developers figure out new ways to use the pieces is every bit as smart...
...clever routes, providing a jocular corrective to the relentless noir gore of CSI et al. The mysteries are engaging but not byzantine; you can probably figure out the culprit just a step before Jane does. And who doesn't want a handsome man to make him or her feel smart...