A 50Mhz channel in the 3Ghz space is not going to change the world of wireless. The spectrum won't propogate worth a crap and 50MHz is not enough to really solve bandwidth or channel interference issues. It will be as noisy as 2.4 and won't work as well.
Well wait just a minute here.......
Microsoft already has two CTOs. with Craig Mundie (the grumpy old man from 'Soul of a New Machine') being the big-swinging-dick of CTO's. He reports to Bill and runs the office of 'Advanced Stragegy and Policy'. I forget who the other one is, but he is less important. The issue of real importance is 'WHAT HAPPENS TO CRAIG MUNDIE?'. Maybe they now have three CTOs, but that sorta makes a mess of the 'Chief' part of the title.
Shakeup ahead? Mundie is responsible for good things like the Tablet (don't flame me), but is known for crazy stuff like Kid PCs and losing about $5 BILLION dollars on a deal in the communications space.
Is he on his way out?????
Microsoft is very concerned about its ratio of developers to test engineers, and is doing what it can to REDUCE the number of test people on any specific project. The ratio was two test to one dev, and the project over the last 18 months has been to reduce that ratio to about 1.2 test to one developer.
So, we can see, Microsoft is creating yet more complex untestable software while at the same time reducing the amount of testing they can actually do.
The 'theory' is that they can automate a lot of the testing. The practice seems to be to push the release button and call it good.
There is NO way this will happen. Microsoft is so completely resource constrained now, adding a porting effort for an unfinished file system that has already slipped past Longhorn (Longerhorn??) simply doesn't add up. WinFS slipped past Longhorn release because of a critical dependency on a key component that did not allow enough integration time to make the release.
Microsoft has lost its ability to create and ship technology because it now takes so many Program Managers, Test Managers, testers, and misc people to do anything AT ALL, added to the overly complex way EVERYTHING is designed (to use the term loosly) and the fact that requirements are constantly changing by all of the various intermingled factions within the different product and research groups.
Longhorn is now considered by some inside the beast as Windows XP SP3 because so much has been taken out due to resource problems and scheduling problems. The original 'Book of Longhorn' was a good 2 inches thick. Version 3 of the same tome is barely 1/2 inch thick, and some of that is used to document what ISN'T in Longhorn.
WinFS in XP??? Ha.
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A 50Mhz channel in the 3Ghz space is not going to change the world of wireless. The spectrum won't propogate worth a crap and 50MHz is not enough to really solve bandwidth or channel interference issues. It will be as noisy as 2.4 and won't work as well.
Well wait just a minute here....... Microsoft already has two CTOs. with Craig Mundie (the grumpy old man from 'Soul of a New Machine') being the big-swinging-dick of CTO's. He reports to Bill and runs the office of 'Advanced Stragegy and Policy'. I forget who the other one is, but he is less important. The issue of real importance is 'WHAT HAPPENS TO CRAIG MUNDIE?'. Maybe they now have three CTOs, but that sorta makes a mess of the 'Chief' part of the title. Shakeup ahead? Mundie is responsible for good things like the Tablet (don't flame me), but is known for crazy stuff like Kid PCs and losing about $5 BILLION dollars on a deal in the communications space. Is he on his way out?????
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Microsoft is very concerned about its ratio of developers to test engineers, and is doing what it can to REDUCE the number of test people on any specific project. The ratio was two test to one dev, and the project over the last 18 months has been to reduce that ratio to about 1.2 test to one developer.
So, we can see, Microsoft is creating yet more complex untestable software while at the same time reducing the amount of testing they can actually do.
The 'theory' is that they can automate a lot of the testing. The practice seems to be to push the release button and call it good.
There is NO way this will happen. Microsoft is so completely resource constrained now, adding a porting effort for an unfinished file system that has already slipped past Longhorn (Longerhorn??) simply doesn't add up. WinFS slipped past Longhorn release because of a critical dependency on a key component that did not allow enough integration time to make the release. Microsoft has lost its ability to create and ship technology because it now takes so many Program Managers, Test Managers, testers, and misc people to do anything AT ALL, added to the overly complex way EVERYTHING is designed (to use the term loosly) and the fact that requirements are constantly changing by all of the various intermingled factions within the different product and research groups. Longhorn is now considered by some inside the beast as Windows XP SP3 because so much has been taken out due to resource problems and scheduling problems. The original 'Book of Longhorn' was a good 2 inches thick. Version 3 of the same tome is barely 1/2 inch thick, and some of that is used to document what ISN'T in Longhorn. WinFS in XP??? Ha.