Why Vista Took So Long?
"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."
Source: Slashdot
Why Vista Took So Long?
"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."
Source: Slashdot
Why Vista Took So Long?
"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."
Source: Slashdot
Once more (with feeling): What is Windows Live?
Microsoft has been struggling to explain "Windows Live" ever since Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie officially unveiled Microsoft's Live plans on November 1, 2005. Today, I had a chance to ask Steve Berkowitz, the senior vice president of Microsoft's online services group (and prior to joining Microsoft in April 2006, the AskJeeves CEO) to define Windows Live. He provided what I consider the best and most understandable definition of Windows Live I've seen to date.
Live consists of three distinct, yet interrelated, parts, Berkowitz said. There's the Live platform (about which I'll be blogging more later today); the individual Live services (Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, etc.); and the Live experiences, or user interfaces. Berkowitz describes experiences as ways to enter the Internet search, commerce, entertainment portals (such as MSN.com) and community.
Full story: ZDNet
Once more (with feeling): What is Windows Live?
Microsoft has been struggling to explain "Windows Live" ever since Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie officially unveiled Microsoft's Live plans on November 1, 2005. Today, I had a chance to ask Steve Berkowitz, the senior vice president of Microsoft's online services group (and prior to joining Microsoft in April 2006, the AskJeeves CEO) to define Windows Live. He provided what I consider the best and most understandable definition of Windows Live I've seen to date.
Live consists of three distinct, yet interrelated, parts, Berkowitz said. There's the Live platform (about which I'll be blogging more later today); the individual Live services (Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, etc.); and the Live experiences, or user interfaces. Berkowitz describes experiences as ways to enter the Internet search, commerce, entertainment portals (such as MSN.com) and community.
Full story: ZDNet
Once more (with feeling): What is Windows Live?
Microsoft has been struggling to explain "Windows Live" ever since Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie officially unveiled Microsoft's Live plans on November 1, 2005. Today, I had a chance to ask Steve Berkowitz, the senior vice president of Microsoft's online services group (and prior to joining Microsoft in April 2006, the AskJeeves CEO) to define Windows Live. He provided what I consider the best and most understandable definition of Windows Live I've seen to date.
Live consists of three distinct, yet interrelated, parts, Berkowitz said. There's the Live platform (about which I'll be blogging more later today); the individual Live services (Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, etc.); and the Live experiences, or user interfaces. Berkowitz describes experiences as ways to enter the Internet search, commerce, entertainment portals (such as MSN.com) and community.
Full story: ZDNet
Vista adoption to outpace XP, analyst says
Up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year that the operating system is available, said David Mitchell, the software practice leader at Ovum Ltd. "That would make it the fastest-moving operating system ever," he said. By comparison, between 12 to 14 percent of users switched to Windows XP during the first year of its release, Mitchell said.
Vista will gain traction in the market from quick adoption by both corporate and consumer users. For example, companies that participate in Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing program will automatically get upgrades to Vista, Mitchell said. "On the consumer side, there has been a bit of pent-up demand. Just look at the beta adoption in the consumer space -- it's very high," he said.
Full story: InfoWorld
Vista adoption to outpace XP, analyst says
Up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year that the operating system is available, said David Mitchell, the software practice leader at Ovum Ltd. "That would make it the fastest-moving operating system ever," he said. By comparison, between 12 to 14 percent of users switched to Windows XP during the first year of its release, Mitchell said.
Vista will gain traction in the market from quick adoption by both corporate and consumer users. For example, companies that participate in Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing program will automatically get upgrades to Vista, Mitchell said. "On the consumer side, there has been a bit of pent-up demand. Just look at the beta adoption in the consumer space -- it's very high," he said.
Full story: InfoWorld
Vista adoption to outpace XP, analyst says
Up to 15 percent of PC users will move to Vista within the first year that the operating system is available, said David Mitchell, the software practice leader at Ovum Ltd. "That would make it the fastest-moving operating system ever," he said. By comparison, between 12 to 14 percent of users switched to Windows XP during the first year of its release, Mitchell said.
Vista will gain traction in the market from quick adoption by both corporate and consumer users. For example, companies that participate in Microsoft's Software Assurance licensing program will automatically get upgrades to Vista, Mitchell said. "On the consumer side, there has been a bit of pent-up demand. Just look at the beta adoption in the consumer space -- it's very high," he said.
Full story: InfoWorld
Can Microsoft morph Windows into an Internet service?
Even before Google hired away from Microsoft one of the preeminent developers of Windows last year, speculation over when and whether Google might launch a GoogleOS has been rampant. (And is still ongoing, in spite of the Google brass attempt to throw cold water on the idea.)
However, I havent seen Microsoft observers mull a similar question: What if Microsoft were to do something similar? What might Windows look like if it were available in Internet-service form?
Full story: ZDNet