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Why "Vista" Nick White Left Microsoft

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the spinning-the-spin-control dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week Nick White, Product Manager for Windows Vista and blogger at WindowsVistaBlog, announced that he was leaving Microsoft. Geek.com previously interviewed Nick about what SP1 for Vista was all about, so they sat down with him yesterday to get the details behind his departure, his proudest moments at Microsoft, a few regrettable moments, and more."

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  1. Save your time - he said nothing by ahabswhale · · Score: 3, Informative

    I read the whole article and nothing was actually revealing probably because he failed to say anything negative whatsoever about his former company (and everyone has something negative to say about their employer), yet he offers no real reason why he left but it's supposedly an interview about his leaving Microsoft... Sorry for the run-on sentence.

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  2. My take by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 4, Informative

    Marketing Droid speaks Marketing Noise, to people who really don't care.

    "Did you ever post something that Microsoft wished you hadnâ(TM)t?

    The first post I put up was on the use of BitTorrents to distribute Beta 2, and I gave it a rather sensationalistic title. It got senior managementâ(TM)s attention, and from there we had a blank check to engage anyone we needed in order to get the story in time for it to be relevant to our readers. So while it was perhaps a risky route to go in the short-term, it was that story that ensured our blog was apportioned the resources necessary to get the job done right. In short, Iâ(TM)d do it again and in the same way (only Iâ(TM)d blame it all on my managers :) )."

    If you read this, he never answer the freakin question, as asked! In fact, he said he'd do it again. I don't know if that was sarcasm, which doesn't work well in written form, or what.

    Why can't people ever answer the question? Seriously. Crap crap crap. I just wasted 5 minutes

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  3. Re:What a bunch of convoluted nonsense by hondo77 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Merriam-Webster also defines shill as "one who makes a sales pitch or serves as a promoter".

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  4. Regrets? by MoeDrippins · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can someone point out the regrets? I couldn't find any. Neither could firefox.

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  5. Re:Propaganda by jimicus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Erm... It's the way most people get a copy of Vista. The license permits this crap... So out of the box, it arrives very badly broken. This is Vista's fault. That crap should be on an included CD just in case you are interested in any special offers.... I would point out that a few years ago Microsoft got a minor rap across the knuckles for refusing to allow OEMs to install non-Microsoft software.