It depends on what you consider great software. I agree the Office programmers could do with being cut in half or into two departments, one with a majority of s

It depends on what you consider great software. I agree the Office programmers could do with being cut in half or into two departments, one with a majority of senior programmers and one with newer programmers; one produces Office and one runs through all the code and tests the sucker to death. However, writing an OS I don't think fast is necessarily good. The biggest improvement (IMO) microsoft could make to windows would essentially be a completely error free XP. I've tried Vista and I've seen no appreciable improvement and just a huge pain in the ass for doing absolutely everything I'm used to. I think if they could make XP survive anything that can be thrown at it and virus proof the sucker to hell, I think it would be the best product MS ever made.