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"Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility" and "
by ezy 15y ago
"Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility" and "we learned some great lessons and renewed our sense of responsibility to the community"
Given that this was full of stuff worded like this, I sort of doubt that. You feel like you're being snowed from the first sentence onwards. I realize this is somewhat orthogonal to the technology that might be included. However, this is supposed to be from "inside the engineering team", and it's almost completely tone-deaf. Either they need to hire more intelligent PR people or, I don't know, let actual engineers talk about what they are building.
- arihant 15y agoHe's not a PR guy. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky MSDN blogs are usually full of stuff MS engineers are doing. I think he is trying to write to a more broader audience than just developers (bloggers, social media people, etc.), hence the crafty wording.
- barista 15y agoI think he's a president at Microsoft. Nothing but great respect for this guy.
- evanlong 15y agoGreat blog on history of Windows and why things are the way they are: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/
- cooldeal 15y agoThe real reason for the PR like speak is what he says in the blog post. They don't want to end up with the WinFS like fiasco where they over promised but under delivered. MS is still ridiculed about WinFS. Wait for the engineering blogs to actually start. They will have the real meat like the Windows 7 engineering blogs did. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/ Is there something like this for OS X or Chrome OS ?
- barista 15y agoI think what he is referring to by "industry wide effort" is the fact that microsoft works with a lot of partners early through the milestone and incorporates a lot of feedback. That way a lot of partner companies other than Microsoft have a say in what goes in the next release.