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Re: [News] The Ugly Story Behind Windows Vista and the Developer Shuffles

  • Subject: Re: [News] The Ugly Story Behind Windows Vista and the Developer Shuffles
  • From: flyer <flyer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:40:54 -0700
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: The Los Angeles Free-Net
  • References: <12128371.FuFQJdxttP@schestowitz.com>
  • User-agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:506015
In article <12128371.FuFQJdxttP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
> Developers
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "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."
> `----
> 
> http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
> http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
> 
> 
> | also admitted that it has major problems in it's Windows division and has
> | has immediately initiated a total restructure of the division..."

Restructuring. This is ridiculous.

If you move a big pile of reeking garbage all around -- if you 
restructure it --  you still have a big pile of reeking garbage.

They don't need to restructure, they need to find at least a tiny spot of 
honor and ethics.


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