__/ [ Peter Hayes ] on Monday 09 October 2006 11:12 \__
> In <17882871.6mHCWXNxVa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 09 October 2006 08:00 \__
>>
>>> newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>> Analysts split over Vista launch date
>>>>
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>>>> | A delay for Vista now would be convenient for Microsoft, Gartner
>>>> | analyst David Mitchell-Smith argued, because "when people start
>>>> | complaining about the delay, Microsoft can reasonably say 'don't
>>>> | blame us' and point the finger at the EC."
>>>> `----
>>>
>>> Some small credit for the delay goes to the Firefox team, that forced
>>> Microsoft to move developers away from Vista to work on IE.
>>> Something they surely wouldn't have done otherwise. (In case anybody
>>> thinks that monopolies are good for the consumer.)
>>
>> I once read about XBox developers who were being team-swapped to
>> assist Vista (possibly the same with Microsoft's 'Photoshop killer',
>> IIRC). There are managers involved in those switches as well (some
>> swapped, some just left). Do you have something to support this
>> assessment that the IE team (that which was (re-)assembled after 5
>> years of ignoring Web woes) squeezed talent and expertise out of
>> Windows? If so, this may explain the "development crash" of Vista, as
>> Ballmer recently referred to it.
>
> Surely switching staff around like that isn't very efficient. They won't
> be up to speed on their new project, or is the code so compartmentalised
> that they can work on one snippet without understanding the context?
But wait... it has only gotten worse.
Microsoft Internal Transfers Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
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| It also addresses concerns people have noted here about getting permission
| to interview and suffering demoralizing lock-in when their manager deigns
| them too essential to leave (at least the VP now has to step up and go
| on record for the lock-in - may they feel the cool breeze of future
| accountability on the back of their neck with every consideration).
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http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/10/microsoft-internal-transfers-just-got.html
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