Microsoft's key practices in product development may initially look like they are following the methods used by hackers in the early stages of the software programming to design application, this may be true in some way as Microsoft uses the same concept of small teams in designing applications and making changes as and when necessary thereby improving these products by incrementally evolving their features. This small teams interact with each other almost on daily basis with common deve

The approach used by Microsoft has been successfully; some might say they don't allow healthy competition to exist and thereby forcing the people to buy their products in-spite of having large number of bugs. Their main advantage lies in marketing techniques; as soon as the design of the product is conceptually visualized the product managers they write up functional specifications to include all the features based on the technology and requirement of the organizations. In my view I would not agree completely with the style of working of Microsoft, if there were more companies to develop software the public could benefit, as they would try to develop better or bug free software applications. The advantages of the approach used by Microsoft is they develop software fast as the each group has certain number of people working under one leader, communication is good

In common approach we have a clear specification and we tend to develop application based on those specifications where as

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