[PRL] Morning blog clip

Mitchell Wand wand at ccs.neu.edu
Sun Nov 26 09:38:50 EST 2006


[From Joel Spoelsky] Read the rest-- it gets better!  --Mitch



The Windows Shutdown crapfest  I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years
total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006.

The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on
Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time. I spent a full year
working on a feature which should've been designed, implemented and tested
in a week. To my happy surprise (where "happy" is the *freude* in *
schadenfreude*), Joel Spolsky wrote an
article<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/24.html>about my
feature.

I would like to try to explain how this happened.

I worked on the "Windows Mobile PC User Experience" team. This team was part
of Longhorn from a feature standpoint but was organizationally part of the
Tablet PC group. To find a common manager to other people I needed to work
with required walking 6 or 7 steps up the org chart from me.

Note created November 26, 2006
moblog: The Windows Shutdown
crapfest<http://www.drizzle.com/%7Elettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html>
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www.drizzle.com/...

http://www.drizzle.com/~lettvin/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.html
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