Microsoft is dead: 1 year + 8 people to develop Vista shutdown (and it still sucks)

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

This blog entry from an ex-Windows developer describes how it took an entire year to develop the shutdown feature for Windows Vista.

What it really took is a year to remove the head of OS development. Those layers of bureacracy are classic symptoms of top management that has little clue what the workers are doing / stuggling with.

Microsoft finally transferred the head of Office to fix Vista. But that is long after the above shutdown fiasco was history.

I have some concerns about Microsoft. Steve Balmer is an MBA. He can protect the status quo. But moving into new innovation, well, Vista took how long before he realized he had a problem?