On 23 May 2004 at 15:07, Philip Aker wrote:
> For a company with at least 10 times the number of programmers thatApple has, Microsoft should have released Longhorn within two years. The real laugh is that the so called "Chief Software Architect" of Microsoft would permit such an inflexible design to proceed in the first place.
\/\/hatever.
You are obviously, much much smarter and more experienced with software engineering than anyone at Microsoft, so it's indisputable that Microsoft is incompetent.
Without trying to further inflame the platform war, it seems to my non-programmer's brain (and my brother's, too, who IS a programmer) that having more programmers might not actually improve either volume or speed of programming, not to mention quality. My brother says that with the way large projects are set up and organised in large companies, it's a wonder that any of them EVER get finished product out the door at all, never mind relatively bug-free and with an OK user interface.
I make comparisons with some of the large music-writing projects I've had to coordinate between a dozen or so composers/arrangers, and even with fairly standard specifications compared to the computer biz (orchestration, score setup, part preparation, known abilities of the players) it was a HUGE headache, with giant pitfalls at every turn, some of which were avoided by the skin of my teeth, and some of which I fell into headlong and had to claw my out of by my fingernails. And the inertia involved in trying to implement even small changes was daunting. Now compare that to the quantity and quality that ONE composer can turn out, or one programmer (Tobias Geisen comes to mind; it is amazing that in his TG Tools one person could get so much so right and so accurately in so little time, that an entire software company missed or ignored).
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