Microsoft's Not So Happy Family

D.A. Zollinger writes "Reports from Redmond are that Microsoft Employees are not happy with the double delay of Windows and Office being pushed back into 2007. EETimes is reporting that some Microsoft employees are calling for the termination of several top managers Including Brian Valentine, Jim Allchin, and Steve Ballmer for the delay debacle. The report references a blog by Who da'Punk, an anonymous Microsoft employee who asks, where's the accountability for failure? So far the blog entry has generated over 350 comments from Microsoft insiders and outsiders."

Comments

Re:Since when has ..

[orzetto]

During the 1980s Reagan was about as hated and villified as Bush Jr. For the American and European left it was the end of the world, he was the anti-christ. Twenty years later we have a better perspective than when were in the midst of the turmoil and emotion.

Reagan helped a number of terrorist organisations, such as the Contras in Nicaragua and the Mujaheddeen in Afghanistan, on the sole premises that they were "anti-communist". Reagan was elected in 1980, if my memory serves me. 21 years later, guess what one of those former mujaheddeens did in New York?

Did it really take a genius to fathom that giving guns to nutty fundamentalists is not a smart move? Islamic fundies killed more Americans than Soviets and communists ever did, mind you.

Re:It's unfortunate

[Farmer Tim]

...they tried to rewrite the dungpile of spaghetticode in .Net technologies but failed to get any descent performance and stability
 
.Net always had "descent" performance: it was a huge let-down.

(Sorry, that spelling mistake was too good to pass up)

Re:^not the brightest crayon in the box

[Jim_Callahan]

"Islamic fundies killed more Americans than Soviets and communists ever did, mind you."
 
The irrelevance of your comment aside (it could easily be argued that this is _because_ Reagan took steps to hinder the communist dictatorships) I think you're probably just plain wrong, unless the combined casualties of the Korean and Vietnamese civil wars we involved ourselves in were a lot smaller than I thought they were.
 
Or maybe you meant american _civillians_, in which case you'll get hit with the irrelevance thing again, as the soviets and communists weren't targeting our civillians at all.

Re:It's unfortunate

[roman_mir]

they tried to rewrite the dungpile of spaghetticode in .Net technologies but failed to get any descent performance and stability - they shouldn't have aimed for Descent FreeSpace performance and stability, those are space age technologies and this is just an MS commercial OS for christ sakes.