If there were Oscars for business software, who would win best-dressed?
The conventional wisdom would go with Apple or Google based apps, not Microsoft. In fact most design buffs pay little attention to Microsoft’s MIX designer conference that it holds each year in Las Vegas. Truth be told, as a public, we just don’t think of Microsoft as cool, as best-dressed, as Oscar worthy. Not like Apple and Steve Jobs anyway.
That’s starting to change in not so subtle ways. This year’s MIX conference is sure to play up for example Microsoft’s re-entry into the mobile space with Windows 7 Mobile. The Silverlight/WPF user interface has as much to do with Windows CE interfaces of the past as the Iphone does with the Apple II.
In the meantime, Microsoft quietly showcases some of the most attractive end-user applications anywhere. And did you see which enterprise business software is show-cased there?
