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How Microsoft Develops Its Software
crem_d_genes writes "David Gristwood has a post on his blog that notes '21 Rules of Thumb - How Microsoft Develops Its Software', on which he will elaborate at TechEd in Amsterdam next week. It was derived from interviews with Jim Mccarthy, also of Microsoft. Gristwood: 'As someone who has been involved with software development for over two decades, the whole area of how you actually bring together a team and get them to successfully deliver a project on time, is one worthy of a lot of attention, if only because it is so hard to do. Even before I joined Microsoft, ten years ago, I was interested in this topic, having been involved myself in a couple of projects that, I shall politely say, were somewhat less than successful.' Tips include such features as 'Don't know what you don't know.'; 'Beware the guy in a room.'; 'Never trade a bad date for an equally bad date.'; and 'Enrapture the customers.'"
So, that's a list of 21 things *not* to do...
count the number of "f*ck" in comments for news M$ software ?
2) They do more than use the legal system. They also use the political system to weasel their way out of things (Oops they lost a case, but it is an election year, they pump money into a politician, who barely makes it in, who then appoints people to try the case, who decide NOT to pursue the case. The fact that AMONG their many attempts to get out of the crime, they also pursued the legal system is meaningles - I do not claim that everything they do is illegal.
3) Your arguement is totally lacking in sense. I do not say MS does not make superior software, I said it only makes superior software when they sabotage their competition. To make logical sense you must at least CLAIM that MS has competed in a where they do not sabotage their competition.
4A) Your arguments are Time, which I already pretty thoroughly trashed. Time does NOT absolve you of crimes you committed. Simply repeating a bad argument does not make it become correct.
4B)Settling is a good excuse. If you had just mentioned this one, you might make sense.
4C) You have to be a TOTAL moron to think that "The act was unique." is both true and valid. Microsoft has lost multiple legal cases. You are either claiming that each incident is "unique" from the other because they used a different illegal method, or stupidly not being aware of the multiple other legal cases. They are a repeate offender, so this crime is NOT unique.
5) Your last point is somewhat true. It is irrelevant when discussing MS current engineering practices, as long as you accept that the same guiding principles that created the illegal actions before are not working now, with a bit of camoflage
In conclusion, the statement "Let it go" demonstrates ignorance, complacency and stupidty, even if it was on the correct side of the argument. You are basically saying it is OK to commit crimes. A better statement would have been.
"That crime has been paid for and irrelevant to this discussion".
That would have been accurate, intelligent, fair.
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This is so obviously astro-turfing there's no point in even carrying on here anymore. Someone points to an MS article; 'Joely' has to get in on it; MS send their hordes in to dilute the conversation; you freaks aren't real. Get a life: your posts serve no purpose other than to be provocative, and what's really clever is how you call all else a troll when that's exactly what you're doing. Having fun? We're not. Go away and we might again.
Bye.