__/ [ William Poaster ] on Tuesday 05 June 2007 11:46 \__
> It was on, or about, Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:49:29 +0000, that alt wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:45:22 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:
>>
>>> In article <1611112.tNM59OZUEG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Competitiveness at the marketing/litigious level is Microsoft's
>>>> strength. They cannot compete at the technical level because good
>>>> engineers refuse to work for that company.
>>>
>>> So your contention would be that none of the following are good
>>> engineers?
>>>
>>> Gordon Bell
>>> Jim Blinn
>>> Jim Kajiya
>>> Michael H. Freedman
>>> Tony Hoare
>>> John Platt
>>> Michael F. Cohen
>>> Peter Montgomery
>>>
>>>
>> My contention (Because I horribly worded my original post) is that their
>> current pool of engineers cannot possibly hold up the entire company.
>
> Rather like an inverted pyramid, standing on it's apex rather than it's
> base.....
The good people leave...
MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers
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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
|
| [...]
|
| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
The less talented join in...
,----[ Quote ]
| The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people
| has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly...
`----
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html
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