____/ Linonut on Friday 22 February 2008 16:48 : \____
> * Mark Kent peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> Vista SP1 was Microsoft's first attempt at a marketing-only SP. Knowing
>> that most people are wise enough to avoid Windows releases in their
>> "early" states because they are so awful, Microsoft released a SP which
>> had no purpose /other than/ to give the impression that the early
>> problems had been ironed out and that the whole world could happily
>> throw away their old hardware, go to the computer shop, buy new
>> hardware, monitors etc., talk to electricity company, get mains supply
>> upgraded, talk to anti-virus vendor, take out next mortage, etc., etc.
>>
>> SPs for Windows are now a matter of marketing.
>
> Sounds like it.
>
> "When life deals you lemons, make lemonade."
As a matter of fact (no bashing), Windows' leadership is gone, a manager was
borrowed from the Office team IIRC, and most of the Windows (codebase) gurus
left also, which leaves just the rookies to deal with a beast (frankenbuild is
they call it internally because there's poor modularity and separation, unlike
FOSS).
--
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