I read that the WSJ invited two bloggers to discuss and debate the state of uh-Microsoft. Who did they invite? Dave Winer and Robert Scoble. The best pals in the world. That never works, and it shows too. Debate? That’s not a debate.
At the end of the debate, Scoble points out an example where (according to him) Microsoft does innovate: an article at Gizmodo that “points” out that Microsoft’s search services work better on mobile devices than Google. Says Scoble:
One last thing. Can Microsoft hit the innovation bet? Just today Gizmodo ran a shootout of mobile search services that Google and Microsoft provided. Gizmodo said, “So which is better? Without a doubt, Microsoft’s was the winner.”
That’s half of the story what I read: I read that Gizmodo did a comparison how the two company’s mobile search applications fared on Microsoft PocketPC 2003. One application is a native PocketPC app. The other is Java-based. Can you guess which company made the ‘crappy’ application?
Maybe it’s about time Sun open-sourced Java and the whole damn stuff.