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I created an account just to reply to this. You said, "It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology.

I created an account just to reply to this. You said, "It's often weirdly hard to find out what's going on with some particular Microsoft project or technology..." I was just thinking that very thing today. Why is that?

13of40 10y ago
It's not as bad as Amazon, apparently. I've known people there who say everything is compartmentalized. At Microsoft, it's typically only the bleeding edge stuff they keep secret internally.
- killbrad 10y ago
  I'd be interested in specifics on either side.
- JdeBP 10y ago
  Keeping things secret is only a part of the problem. Corporate utter forgetfulness of the past is another. Consider the tale related by Stephen Walli (referenced at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11560510) about the Microsoft people who didn't even know that Microsoft had the SFUA/SUA with Windows NT. > "I had to explain to the [Windows High Performance Computing team] that they already owned the technology they needed, but to no avail. They couldn't get their head around the idea."
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sievebrain 10y ago
Organising and propagating information throughout a large organisation takes significant effort.