Why Vista Took So Long

twofish writes, "Following on from Joel Spolsky's blog on the Windows Vista shutdown menu, Moishe Lettvin, a former member of the Windows Vista team (now at Google) who spent a year working on the menu, gives an insight into the process, and some indication as to what the approximately 24 people who worked on the shutdown menu actually did. Joel has responded in typically forthright fashion." From the last posting: "Every piece of evidence I've heard from developers inside Microsoft supports my theory that the company has become completely tangled up in bureaucracy, layers of management, meetings ad infinitum, and overstaffing. The only way Microsoft has managed to hire so many people has been by lowering their hiring standards significantly. In the early nineties Microsoft looked at IBM, especially the bloated OS/2 team, as a case study of what not to do; somehow in the fifteen year period from 1991–2006 they became the bloated monster that takes five years to ship an incoherent upgrade to their flagship product."

Comments

No it's real real simple

[gelfling]

Vista is a bloated drawn out piece of crap because once again, building on previous mistakes, MS intentionally ignores what customers want and instead builds software that will maximize MS income and the income of MS's partners.

Development model? Ok here's one: The Soviet development model. The Party decides what is good and proceeds to fuck up the development of their own arrogance.

Re:Linux development model?

[Tobenisstinky]

BURN!