____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 01 January 2008 16:13 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Linonut on Tuesday 25 December 2007 18:29 : \____
>>
>>> * Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> "The Office team is taking over Windows. They have no idea
>>> what they\u2019re biting into. Office source is at least an order
>>> of magnitude smaller in size than Windows source and Heaven knows
>>> how many fewer sku's produce. The product compile times
>>> aren't even in the same time measurement window."
>>>
>>> Here's a Ballmeresque episode from Windows-Live-guy-cum-kernel-developer
>>> David Cutler:
>>>
>>> As for Cutler... the hard-nosed kernel developer has gone from
>>> Windows development to "improving" Windows Live. When
>>> teased about his new assignment, my friend told me he threw a
>>> "Cutler classic temper tantrum," nearly wrecking a small
>>> part of the cafeteria.
>>>
>>> "Considering that he and not MS owns the kernel code," my
>>> buddy said, "This is amazingly stupid! He's just biding
>>> time to vest some stock and then he'll split, I just know
>>> it!"
>>>
>>> What? Cutler owns with Windows kernel code? Can that possibly be true.
>>> It seems amazingly unbelievable to me.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> On the other hand, Ballmer just promised new releases every two
>>> years, from here on out.
>>>
>>> Funny how reality doesn't quite match up with the press
>>> releases, isn't it?
>>
>> They are still failing at this. Their diary is made out of vapour. Wait
>> until they 'rename' (no, they won't call it a rename) a Service Pack to make
>> it seem like a new&shiny release. A year ago, Allchin said he regretted not
>> calling the XP Service Packs something else, which would make them seem like
>> new
>> O/Ses. I think it was in Mary Jo Foley's blog, but I can't recall for sure
>> (this might take a while to find).
>>
>
> It's all noise and no substance, isn't it? I suppose the thinking is
> that if the SPs had been called "new releases", then Microsoft could've
> tried to squeeze even more cash from their unsuspecting customer base.
Pay for alpha (RTM), beta (SP1) and final (SP2). What could be better for a
cash cow?
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