3 ms·
It seems perfectly in line with every other announcement from Microsoft over the past 20 years. Every time they start an exciting new project, they astroturf th
by TheRealDunkirk 10y ago
It seems perfectly in line with every other announcement from Microsoft over the past 20 years. Every time they start an exciting new project, they astroturf the snot out of the announcement, in the press and online, to make it seem like it's more production-ready than it is, and then it takes longer than anyone predicted, and the things that made the announcement interesting (like getting away from MSBuild) wind up getting scrapped. I don't know why this pattern surprises anyone any more. I'm still waiting for Bash on Windows to support RVM and bootstrapping a Rails environment, but, then, I'm still waiting for the filesystem improvements promised in Cairo.
- maxxxxx 10y agoIt seems to me that at MS they have smart guys come up with a good idea. These people are deemed too valuable to actually do this so management hands off the work to some inexperienced people. My company often does the same with things like refactoring or source control strategy. Good people are needed for project work so some intern gets to do a massive refactoring with bad results.
- Philipp__ 10y agoIt's Microsoft, their things always start with fantastic idea/concept but the implementation and delivery never gets it nowhere near as hoped. Oh well...