> It is amazing how far some people will go to defend their one true > love. > No it is not acceptable for MS to migrate its piss-poor software > engineering practices to the realm of MP3 players (a.k.a. embedded > controllers). People who write embedded controllers are expected to do > a > far better job than people who write computer software because their > users have fewer options to respond to failures. Having to reboot an > airliner in mid-flight or and EKG in mid-operation is not a good thing. > > This is a public demonstration of MS's poor practices. When I work with > MS systems this is what I expect to see. The only difference is that > what > I see is under the hood so it is not readily understood by > non-specialists. This boo-boo is very obvious and the reason is not > hard > to understand either: careless, sloppy, slovenly work. > > If MS spent their billions in profits on good systems work I would sing > their praises. My gripe is that I see smaller companies with far fewer > resources doing far better. > > Maybe Zunepocalypse will get some clueless MBAs to finally ask their > even > more clueless IT managers why their businesses rely on products from a > company that is so obviously incompetent. Maybe the "iPod Effect" will > become the "Zune Effect."
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