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To: Don Green who wrote (11558)	3/23/2006 3:28:38 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19790

all these reports about the shakeup are acting like the primary problem is a management communications issue. But the real problem as I see it is an inability to produce. Of course it is hard to communicate to the higher ups that you can't meet a long date with a watered down feature set. Yes it would be better if mgmt openness was improved. But why would anybody expect delays like this for Vista now. I think the problem is msft doesn't have any good engineers anymore.

To: Don Green who wrote (11558)	3/24/2006 1:17:45 AM
From: dybdahl	Respond to of 19790

The problem here is, that every software product has a natural life cycle, and a long time ago it has reached the bugfix phase. However, marketing wants improvements in order to be able to continue to sell the product well, but the product is so huge and complicated to make any changes in. It would all be easier if they could restart major parts of it - but that is named .net, and most applications are still Win32. I was at a small, local Delphi programmers conference yesterday, where we discussed .net migration. Only a small part used .net or considered to use .net, and the general perception was, that even though .net 2.0 fixes many things, it still often makes more sense to develop for Win32, simply because things work better, and if you only want to develop for one of these two platforms, .net is not a real choice, yet. Since Win32 will be around for quite some years, and since most programmers consider it "uncool" to work with Win32 technology today, Microsoft really has a problem. Google is basically competing against a Win32 OS.