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?

Microsoft is suffering from her own success; They moved away from being a software company far too into business dealings.

Linux which MSFT has percieved as nothing but nonsense is been used by millions and now people know what it's like to have a better option. MS has alway been after the idea of "first to market" and people have been complaining bitterly about it until now that it has become so apparent.

Speculations are rave about the possibility of Google shipping a strip down OS that will be a client of their massive computer infrastructures. The possiblity of Google shipping an OS and a browser has been giving MSFT a lot of nightmere, the recent hire by Google of some of MSFT brightest engineers has irked Ballmer so much that he promised to "Fucking bury Eric Schmidit..."

Before it was Linux, now it's Google who's gonna be next...

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, pls get back to me ok. ?

thanks larry