37,000 at the main Microsoft.....

37,000 at the Microsoft headquarters, and what the heck do they do? honestly, 37,000. That number is almost as bad as Telecom NZ during the 80s. There we so many people and so little to do, there were actually people making chairs for other government departments! is this what is happening at Microsoft?

Here we have 37,000 people apparently working, yet, unable to adequately beta test their products. Just look at the sort of people who tested Windows XP for example, not exactly a shining example of intellectual capacity, yet, they rely on these people to adequately test? the least Microsoft could do would be to move ATLEAST 2,000 people to code audit the blasted thing, atleast the $800 most people paid for it wouldn't have been such a waste, and they would be getting an eXPerience they would savour rather than being one the regret.

Matthew Gardiner

It's just a super inefficiently designed company. I don't know how many employees Apple has (just for the sake of comparison), but I know they have a lot of offices around the US. Microsoft have been cramming a bunch of people into one HQ for years.

Has Microsoft ever heard of 'decentralisation'?

Matthew Gardiner

If they don't park their Ferrari's together, they won't have the incentive to keep trying to keep up the payments.... (How many re-possessors does it take to drive away 37,000 Ferraris?)

Better yet, why aren't there any female or non-American board of directors?

Matthew Gardiner

Nothing, really. But it sure beats the 'haha, I hate Linux becuz I'm stoopid and Windows has more applications' bullshit we keep hearing from the immature retards in this group. I personally don't see any reason why we can't bend the rules and talk about other more loosely related things, as long as the discussion is intelligent and has a point. But certain 'tards in here keep abusing a dead horse's carcass with the extremely beaten to death bogus topic of ugly fonts and whatnot, which really is a debateable issue in the first place (which keeps being proven wrong time after time). Why people even bother bringing up fonts seems like the stupidest thing to me...

It was the Sun, 30 Jun 2002 02:16:25 -0400...

I think it would be a good idea for Microsoft, but a bad idea for the software world, all in all

They each write one line of code and pass it on.

They said that back in 1995, too.

Put this in perspective: License 6.0 was supposed to guarantee them a continuing revenue stream w/o having to crank out new releases every year. With License 6.0 in place they *might* have had the luxury of taking six years for navel contemplation, but L6 is by all accounts a lead balloon.

What they say now and what they'll actually do when the revenues start to slip are two different things.

It was the Mon, 1 Jul 2002 01:38:51 +1000...

Funny. I thought Win32 was supposed to *be* that one single API. I know it isn't, but it's what I've been told by its advocates.

Let's see how things will work out with .NET.