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		WWKong on Nov 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Changes Tack, Making Office Suite Free o... Product cycles are much much longer. So, no.

JeffreyKaine on Nov 6, 2014 [–]

Ex MSFT employee here. Product cycles may or may not be longer, but red tape was the biggest issue when Ballmer was running the ship. There have always been many awesome teams working on cool stuff at MSFT, they were just never allowed to launch anything.

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