Hasta la Vista, part 1: Microsofts final death march
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| Unfortunately, Bill Gates is not a wizard. Even worse, he is a bad
| programmer. When Martin Eller, a Microsoft programmer, found an error in
| the flood fill routine of the MS-Basic interpreter, he exclaimed "Which
| moron wrote this brainless sh*t?" only to find out it was Gates himself who
| wrote the "brainless sh*t". I think it is safe to say that Bill Gates is
| hardly the technical wizard he would so much like to be.
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| Of course, this way of working simply couldn't continue. This had to go
| wrong one time. I don't mean the viruses, the spyware or the overall
| security (or lack of it). Microsoft tolerates the bugs riddling the
| software, since problems can always be patched over. However, with each
| patch and enhancement, it becomes harder to strap new features onto the
| software, since new code can affect everything else in unpredictable ways.
| In short, the software becomes unmaintainable. And Vista reached that
| point.
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