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Very amusing that you think that as that approach is what got us into this mess. MS (not to single anyone out in particular) has always been notorious for rushing a buggy 1.0 to market then iterating it. That's why you need a quad-core 3Ghz PC with 8G RAM to write a single page of A4 now.

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I can't agree that a buggy and slow version of a product is an MVP. There are a lot of things that you can cut from a product to make it minimal. I don't believe quality is one of them. However, I also believe that user feedback cannot be the only factor to build something truly great.

Windows 1.0 and Word 1.0 were viable by definition, as people did buy them.

Point taken, though I meant minimal feature set, not buggy. Also, 2000 and later Office and Windows are hardly the worst offenders in terms of "software that sucks"

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