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Re: MS and the release threadmill ..

__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 20 April 2007 18:31 \__

> until then. if dri was smart, they'd put us on a release treadmill. get
> some new utils, call it 6.5. get a new round of reviews. do it again 6-9
> months later. each round of review would say, dri was already ahead, now
> they are further ahead. once you lose a lot of ground it is very very
> hard to pick it up. we need to stop losing ground while making progress
> towards the ultimate "major leap" msdos6. clearly the trick is to not
> make kernel changes and just add bought utils.


Microsoft -- /buying/ utilities for over 15 years. Where is the creativity?

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39286351,00.htm

/quote
Asked about these problems, Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business
security product manager, told ZDNet UK on Thursday that the code itself
has pieces missing.
"Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not a bad
product, but bits and pieces are missing," said Edelmann.
/unquote

 
> http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04499.pdf

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