__/ [ John Bailo ] on Friday 16 March 2007 17:27 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Microsoft is a machine designed to copy other products.
>
> There is nothing left for them to copy.
>
> The machine implodes.
error: can't copy /stability
They just copy general function and looks instead.
The Redmond Copying Machine?
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| My recent video, which tweaked Microsoft for crowing about its
| "innovation" in Windows Vista (without acknowledging its huge debt
| to Mac OS X), triggered plenty of reaction. It probably comes as no
| surprise that your comments quickly devolved into "which is better"
| bickering, which will proably never end.
|
| [...]
|
| Then this e-mail message, which arrived today from a guy who says
| he worked as a Microsoft temp employee from 2003 to 2004. I've
| agreed not to publish his name.
|
| [...]
|
| "Around the corner was another grid, showing the RealPlayer
| application. This grid was the same: grid A1 was the front userv
| iew of the application, mirroring what was on the iTunes wall/grid.
|
| "Around the next corner was another grid, this one showing Windows
| Media Player version 9 !! This one was missing a few tiles in the
| grid, but you could actually see the progress as each feature [of
| iTunes and RealPlayer] was copied, square for square.
|
| "Amazing. New software is put out, a manager sees it and decides that the
| creative part of their day is making color screen captures of the
| software and presenting it to the copying--er, engineering team."
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http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/the-redmond-copying-machine/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNuq94Zg_8
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