____/ 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/
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>> 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).
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