Joel on Microsoft redux
Posted on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 @ 12:10 pm
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Bill Gates has a history of betting the company on the next technology generation. One of these days he'll lose the bet--or he'll lose interest in the game--and MS will start looking like Ford. Or Exxon. Maybe AT&T. Perhaps a (large) piece of Planetary Software, LTD. (You think not? Happened to Carnegie Steel....) Dare I mention Western Union? How about the Pennsylvania Railroad?
Spolsky!
Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 @ 11:21 pm
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Joel Spolsky, whose blog's been far too quiet of late, returns with a long piece that's mostly about what Microsoft is doing wrong with Longhorn.
Progress: slow changes
Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2003 @ 11:20 pm
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Spent more of the day than I'd intended reworking the site's index pages; first I had to figure out how to code the changes, then there was a lot of manual labor involved in implementing those changes. Most of the time was spent moving files.
Bugs: some testing notes
Posted on Thursday, November 6, 2003 @ 12:01 am
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Where I work, testing sometimes leads to debates about law and policy. Except for that little thing, Joe's got the story nailed down tight. Only it ain't tight at all. It's chaos.
