Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
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Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
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Re: Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
#2"they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."
And rightly so. Anyone who tries to use the download page to download something will give up and never try it again, so after a while everyone will ignore it!
Re: Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
#3Why is this surprising? Bill Gates doesn't need to fanboi Microsoft internally; it's his company. He needs to be as critical as possible so the outside world gets a good product. It's his company that looks bad when things like this happen, so of course he is going to "rant" about it. It's his job.
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#4This reminds me of the bug report Linus Torvalds submitted when he couldn't figure out how to get youtube to work on linux.
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#5And that's how a guy with "no taste" critiques. Imagine Steve Jobs' emails!
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#6"""Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every night -- why should I reboot at that time?"""
Haha
% uname -a
Darwin Galactica.local 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Fri May 23 00:49:16 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.18~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
% uptime
19:08 up 23 days, 6 mins, 2 users, load averages: 0.87 1.02 1.07
Re: Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
#7Why is this surprising? Bill Gates doesn't need to fanboi Microsoft internally; it's his company. He needs to be as critical as possible so the outside world gets a good product. It's his company that looks bad when things like this happen, so of course he is going to "rant" about it. It's his job.
It's surprising because you might think Bill Gates would have some pull at his own company. Most of these issues he raises have been problems for years, and have gotten even worse in some cases!
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#8My favorite lines:
"Someone decided to trash the one part of Windows that was usable? The file system is no longer usable. The registry is not usable. This program listing was one sane place but now it is all crapped up.
But that is just the start of the crap. Later I have listed things like Windows XP Hotfix see Q329048 for more information. What is Q329048? Why are these series of patches listed here? Some of the patches just things like Q810655 instead of saying see Q329048 for more information.
What an absolute mess."
Re: Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant
#9Why is this surprising? Bill Gates doesn't need to fanboi Microsoft internally; it's his company. He needs to be as critical as possible so the outside world gets a good product. It's his company that looks bad when things like this happen, so of course he is going to "rant" about it. It's his job.
It's surprising because you might think Bill Gates would have some pull at his own company. Most of these issues he raises have been problems for years, and have gotten even worse in some cases!
That's a good point; he shouldn't have to point things like this out. It should be obvious that you shouldn't clutter add/remove programs with "tests" and so on. (etc.)
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#10Its good that these sort of issues are exposed, even if by Bill. The scary thing is that MS QA does not pick this stuff up.
As more of this stuff gets exposed this will hopefully make MS work harder. And as Apple is becoming a REAL contender, hopefully MS will pull their head out of their ass.