____/ Homer on Wednesday 25 June 2008 23:54 : \____
> In Gates' own words:
>
> [quote]
> From: Bill Gates
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: Jim Allchin
> Cc: Chris Jones (WINDOWS); Bharat Shah (NT); Joe Peterson; Will Poole;
> Brian Valentine; Anoop Gupta (RESEARCH)
> Subject: Windows Usability Systematic degradation flame
>
> I am quite disappointed at how Windows Usability has been going
> backwards and the program management groups don't drive usability issues.
>
> Let me give you my experience from yesterday.
>
> ...
>
> Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The
> file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This
> program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
>
> But that is just the start of the crap.
>
> ...
>
> What an absolute mess.
>
> ...
>
> So after more than an hour of craziness and making my programs list
> garbage and being scared and seeing that Microsoft.com is a terrible
> website I haven't run Moviemaker and I haven't got the plus package.
>
> The lack of attention to usability represented by these experiences
> blows my mind. I thought we had reached a low with Windows Network
> places or the messages I get when I try to use 802.11. (don't you just
> love that root certificate message?)
>
> ...
>
> As for the message, Gates smiled and said, "There's not a day that I
> don't send a piece of e-mail ... like that piece of e-mail. That's my job."
> [/quote]
>
> http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/141821.asp
>
> So after two decades and seven thousand Email's complaining about how
> "unusable" Windows is, Gates finally gets the message, and runs away
> with his stash of ill-gotten gains, leaving the rest of the world to
> clean up his mess.
>
> Gee, thanks Billy.
"Ask me after we deliver the next version of Windows."
Got the video URL?
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