Re: Microsoft (was: Apple's Development Process?)

Both Balmer and Sinofsky are brilliant men. However, neither provides a bottom-up, transparent environment for consumer-focused product groups, making it hard for engineers used to this environment from the enterprise side.

On Jan 29, 2012, at 10:09 PM, "Jeroen Frijters" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:



Mike wrote:
> I'd also be interesting in a non-BS answer as to why so many important
> Microsoft employees have left in the past few months, even the
> originator of this list, Chris Sells! It seems as though a dark cloud
> has settled over Redmond, but I can't put my finger on what it is.

The best explanation I've seen so far is this:
http://hal2020.com/2012/01/19/untangling-some-of-the-people-moves-at-microso
ft/

When Sinofky moved from Office to Windows I thought they were doomed (let's
say I'm not a fan of Office), but so far he's impressed me very much. Both
in the delivery of Windows 7 and the Windows 8 developer preview and his
PDC/Build presentations. I also thinks he does a stellar job with the
engineering blog.

Yesterday I read the Ballmer Reboots interview in Business Week [1] and I
must say I did not get the feeling that he doesn't know what he is doing.

I think that the current Microsoft (preception) slump is still partly due to
Vista, which was created while Bill was still at Microsoft so I don't think
the blame Ballmer crowd is entirely fair to him. It takes some time to steer
a huge organization and on top of that it takes time for the resulting
products to reach the market.

Regards,
Jeroen

[1]
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/steve-ballmer-reboots-01122012.
html