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Re: Why MS succedes (was Apple has killed it's HI department)
>Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 05:22:19 -0700
>From: "Ed Deans." <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Why MS succedes (was Apple has killed it's HI department)
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>From: Ilan Volow <[email protected]>
>Date: Sunday, September 21, 1997 10:42 PM
>Subject: Re: Why MS succedes (was Apple has killed it's HI department)
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>>related problems, have it too damned good. Finally, everyone who works at
>>MS is an idiot. Argument sounds stupid, but when you consider this company
>>has at least 10 billion bucks and 10,000 programmers, and they still can't
>>make an operating system doesn't have IRQ conflicts, you kind of have to
>>question the intelligence of MS.
>
>While I wouldn't go that far, I do know that Microsoft does hire outside
>companies to help with just about all of its product development including
>Win95. In fact, in addition to knowing several people who work for one
>on-call 24/7 bail-us-out sub-contract company in Seattle (I enjoyed hearing
>stories about pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to 'OOPS, CRASH!'
>in Win95). I've also met an undergrad who worked on driver development for
>Win95; he couldn't write a project spec to save his life. I also heard
>first-hand how a MS solutions provider and MS couldn't figure out what was
>wrong with MFC that kept killing their healthcare billing package. They
>looked to their local college for help. Microsoft: powered by Mt. Dew and
>Pizza.
>
>It's no wonder those products turn out the way they do.
>
>--Ed.
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