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What you see here is the result of Microsoft's ridiculous infighting and internal politics, constructed by the stack-ranking culture of doom. You basically get
by aegiso 13y ago
What you see here is the result of Microsoft's ridiculous infighting and internal politics, constructed by the stack-ranking culture of doom.
You basically get ranked on how visible your stuff is to management, so you:
1) name your project as patriotically as possible. It's gotta include one of "Windows", "Microsoft", "XML", "COM", ".NET", "Modern" -- preferably all of them multiple times, especially if it has nothing to do with any of them.
2) make sure to stick the name in as many places as possible. A great place is the default filesystem structure, where everyone is bound to come across it.
3) earn bonus points if you can massage it into a de-facto standard (hello, XHR)
With any luck, Microsoft Modern framework for Windows Azure .NET connectivity with Windows Azure 8.1 will show up on your reviewer's radar and you can enjoy your juicy bonus until the same time next year.
Source: used to work there
P.S. I'm not a Microsoft cynic -- just having a bit of fun :).
- theg2 13y agoStack ranking wasn't around when any of this was done. This is early 90's stuff when stack ranking didn't even start until the late 90's.
- icebraining 13y agoSysWOW64 is from the 90s?
- workbench 13y ago64bit system files were pretty progressive back then, "WOW! 64bit system files we used to say"
- plorkyeran 13y agoThe Windows on Windows name was also used for the 16-bit compatibility layer, so the WOW part is from the early 90s.
- shrikant 13y agoMaybe we should formulate a Microsoft equivalent of Godwin's Law: "As an online discussion about Microsoft grows longer, the probability of an ex-Microsoftie bringing up stack ranking approaches 1." ("Ballmer's Law" has a nice ring to it..)
- amaks 13y agoHow true. I remember .NET Servers were everywhere circa 2002, e.g. BizTalk Server.NET. Things never change in M$ land, now it's all Azure.