__/ [ John Bailo ] on Monday 11 December 2006 17:29 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Iowa Update - Allchin 2004 email: I'd buy a Mac if I didn't work for MS
>
> *Does* he work for Microsoft? I mean, the guy hasn't produced a viable
> product in like 15 years ?!
>
> And now they're abandoning WinFS.
http://archive.salon.com/tech/log/2001/02/15/unamerican/index.html
Microsoft (Jim Allchin) says open-source software is un-American.
Has the company completely lost its mind?
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112743680328349448,00.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
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| REDMOND, Wash. - Jim Allchin, a senior Microsoft Corp. executive,
| walked into Bill Gates?s office here one day in July last year to
| deliver a bombshell about the next generation of Microsoft Windows.
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| "It's not going to work," Mr. Allchin says he told the Microsoft
| chairman. The new version, code-named Longhorn, was so complex its writers
| would never be able to make it run properly.
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| The news got even worse: Longhorn was irredeemable because Microsoft
| engineers were building it just as they had always built software.
| Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of programmers each
| produce their own piece of computer code, then stitched it together into
| one sprawling program. Now, Mr. Allchin argued, the jig was up. Microsoft
| needed to start over.
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