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Microsoft has a well-known cultural problem that was created under Balmer - MS priorities both within-team and at larger scales are *heavily* driven by Stack Rank, which is a a campaigning process where you everything and every person is put on a list and sorted between "highest" and "lowest" priority. This means there's a constant pressure to make new, sexy things.
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Microsoft has a well-known cultural problem that was created under Balmer - MS priorities both within-team and at larger scales are *heavily* driven by Stack Rank, which is a a campaigning process where you everything and every person is put on a list and sorted between "highest" and "lowest" priority. This means there's a constant pressure to make new, sexy things.
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At the same time, MS obsesses about backwards compatibility - the new Windows stuff must run everything old.
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At the same time, MS obsesses about backwards compatibility - the new Windows stuff must run everything old.
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This means constant horrifying feature creep but every feature becomes a new responsibility for maintenance. You can see this in how hellishly baroque the .NET framework has become. You can also see it in places where backwards compatibility is less of a priority - throwing out and rebuilding whole apps with every Windows version, like their photo gallery, music player, the look-and-feel of MS Office, etc.
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This means constant horrifying feature creep but every feature becomes a new responsibility for maintenance. You can see this in how hellishly baroque the .NET framework has become. You can also see it in places where backwards compatibility is less of a priority - throwing out and rebuilding whole apps with every Windows version, like their photo gallery, music player, the look-and-feel of MS Office, etc.
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I really hope they get their ADD under control now that Ballmer is out.
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I really hope they get their ADD under control now that Ballmer is out.
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MS has really had to embrace pushing for the new tech, though, since Vista and 8 were both consumer kryptonite. They needed to find ways to *push* people to these platforms because otherwise their lackluster reception was rather embarrassing.
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planned obsolescence