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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Windows development chief: 'I would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft'

And you would be very well served, it's a beautiful OS. But so is XP and Vista. And Linux. If I had James Allchin 's budget, I would get a bunch of different OSs, and installed them on a bunch of machines.

But that's not the issue. According to this article, Allchin was caught with is pants down on his mails.

"In my view, we lost our way," Allchin, the co-president of Microsoft's platform and services division, wrote in an e-mail dated Jan. 7, 2004. The e-mail was presented as evidence late last week in the Iowa antitrust trial, Comes v. Microsoft Corp.

"I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means, what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how important current applications are, and really understanding what the most important problems our customers face are. I see lots of random features and some great vision, but that does not translate into great products."

The article end with this funny statement:
Conlin also presented evidence of a job description for Bill Gates' technical assistant, whose primary duty was to make sure no permanent record of Gates' e-mail existed, Conlin said, according to transcripts.

Well, maybe Microsoft's success is based on this actions: when pushed, they react and respond like hell breaking loose!... And so the Linux threat seems under control. But watch out for Apple...


[update] Allchin Explains the "Buy a Mac" Statement

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