Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software

Have you ever wondered what exactly goes on in Redmond (and all the other locations they have offices)?? It's not often you hear about what goes on at Microsoft, so I found this story quite amusing.

Microsoft Windows Officially Broken
David Richards & WSJ - Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Windows was broken and Microsoft has admitted it. In an unprecedented attempt to explain its Longhorn problems and how it abandoned its traditional way of working, the normally secretive software giant has given unparalleled access to The Wall Street Journal, even revealing how Vice President Jim Allchin, personally broke the bad news to Bill Gates.

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Speaking of broken, the article is too with some paragraphs repeating unexpectedly and such. But a good read all the same.

I'm amazed by how disorganized the whole thing is (or was). You would think that for such a huge company, what they would value the most is process quality, not a rush to ship code. But isn't it interesting that they are adopting the Unix model now? Small units, each of which does only one thing but does it well, and they can be connected together.

In light of all this, do you think they will ship a better product now? The software company with the biggest resources on the planet (bar maybe IBM and a couple of others).. I guess we'll find out sometime in 200..6?...7?

i have always known that microsoft was going to pay for their business ideas one day. but i never knew it was going to happen so soon, ,  no company wants to run their servers on MS, and any company that is currently using MS is migrating to UNIX

@chxta

tell me what do you think about VISTA ?

do you know any teslim giwa, please get back to me ok. ?

thanks larry