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I can verify this experience. I recently returned to Windows gaming after over a decade away, and bruises like this are a reminder of why I switched to the Mac.
by yoz 7y ago
I can verify this experience. I recently returned to Windows gaming after over a decade away, and bruises like this are a reminder of why I switched to the Mac.
However, I really want to know: How/why did this happen?
No, not "because Micro$oft sucks!" Microsoft has produced many genuinely excellent things over the years, and it still does. Plus, don't be so lazy. I want to understand this at the organisational level.
Here's an educated guess: To make all this work right, a bunch of different teams _quite far apart_ in the org hierarchy had to all deliver the right things at the right times. Those teams work in different ways, under different deadlines.
So, why didn't they? Some theories, of which several may be true:
1. Because it's just hard
2. Because the planning was mishandled, and key teams didn't get assigned the tasks with enough time
2a. ... in fact, it was an incredibly late idea to begin with
3. Because there was no single person in charge of the effort who had enough organizational clout to override each team's existing pressures/deadlines
4. Because this is actually two problems:
a) make a bunch of separate teams do different related tasks
b) have complete them all by a universally agreed deadline
... and b) just isn't anywhere near as important as a).
Any ideas? I don't know about you, but understanding these organizational problems is _far_ more interesting to me than just dissing Microsoft.
- nailer 7y ago> 3. Because there was no single person in charge of the effort who had enough organizational clout to override each team's existing pressures/deadlines I think that's a big part of it. Look at the Windows app store. The team running the app store got told to promote UWP and not allow Win32 apps, so: - No games in the app store - Office was there, as an exception to the rule, then removed and is now downloaded separately and not in the app store - VScode is downloaded from it's own site and not in the app store - Edge Insiders is downloaded from it's own site and not in the app store - Microsoft Terminal betas will be provided over GitHub releases and not in the app store All those products are excellent, none are in the Windows app store. It has to be a coordination/communication issue.
- harry8 7y ago> No, not "because Micro$oft sucks!" Yeah really, because that. They have the resources to do it well. They have the ability to say "no, didn't work, this sucks, it's not being released today (or ever)." They chose not to do do these things. They suck. It's that simple. I can do a one man effort and screw it up. They're meant to get results worthy of a company with a market cap of more money than god. If they can't AND they release a festering pile of garbage. "Microsoft Sucks!" Is a perfectly reasonable response. You don't praise Ford because they are capable of releasing may cars that don't explode.