Microsoft's Under Promise / Over Deliver Strategy?

I'm liking this new under promise, over deliver era brought on by Ray Ozzie and Live Mesh. Lets hope it's a permanent fixture at Microsoft. Instead of filling us with sunshine about Live Mesh's five year vision (meaning it'll be five years before we see anything), Microsoft has given us hints and very basic demos, followed by rolling out some interesting functionality fairly soon afterward. We've seen this with Live Mesh, Live Search, and Office Workspace to name a few examples.

Not everyone seems to buy into this new strategy. Gates is still espousing multi-year OS development efforts, the latest being Windows 7. Unless Microsoft comes out with something much earlier to look at and play with, we're likely to just have to wait a few years. Maybe Gates is just being coy with us, planning to release Windows 7 "mesh style". We'll have to see.

Bottom line, I'm liking the Ozzie era approach to product releases. I hope we see more this way.

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