Skip to Main Content
The Google Way
book

The Google Way

by Bernard Girard
April 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 53m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from The Google Way

Consider Microsoft

Microsoft is a good example of the next phase of product development. Taking into account the ongoing decline in prices (according to the famous Moore's Law[56]), Bill Gates offered a range of products that would do whatever you wanted as long as you had a keyboard. Microsoft Office is often called bloatware; Office is the Model T of the workplace but fully loaded with accessories you didn't order. It contains not only word processing and spreadsheet applications but also many functions that nobody will ever fully utilize. Those functions are there (somewhere) if you can find them, but most people don't even know they exist.

Microsoft has caught plenty of flak from its critics for its approach to product development. Why include ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Reinventing the Organization for GenAI and LLMs

Ethan Mollick
Leadership Moments from NASA

Leadership Moments from NASA

Dr. Dave Williams, Elizabeth Howell, PhD
The Kind Leader

The Kind Leader

Karyn Ross
Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate

Disrupt Together: How Teams Consistently Innovate

Stephen Spinelli Jr., Heather McGowan

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781593271848Errata