Was "Re: [Finale] OT: Even Randy Stokes has viruses".
On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 12:56 US/Pacific, Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
At 2:47 PM -0400 5/24/04, David W. Fenton wrote:On 23 May 2004 at 15:07, Philip Aker wrote:
For a company with at least 10 times the number of programmers that Apple 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.
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You are obviously, much much smarter and more experienced with software engineering than anyone at Microsoft, so it's indisputable that Microsoft is incompetent.
David Fenton's words, not mine.
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.
The real problem in this particular case and on a number of levels, is Bill Gates. One can easily deduce that if the "Chief Software Architect" can't concept a sketch of a modern operating system (which has many components to be integrated), then it follows that he'd have trouble organizing a large team to implement it efficiently. I'd liken it to composing and orchestrating a fugue. Or perhaps in your case, ramping up a piano vocal by a masterful jazz composer. If the principals of scalability are not dealt with in the original piece, it becomes a huge kludge which is horrendously difficult to conduct. Witness Longhorn.
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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