Jim Allchin to Gates and Ballmer on the state of quality at Microsoft (2004)

15 points
1/21/1970
2 days ago
by Austin_Conlon

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mikestew

“LH (Longhorn) is a pig.” Of historical note is that this was sent seven months before the Great Reset where a lot of the work on Longhorn got scrapped. The .NET and Windows teams never seemed to get along after that.

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kwertyoowiyop

They should send that email again, to all their product managers and VPs.

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54yy

Its almost painful to read this.

In particular the mentioning of his soul - the industry has really gone the furthest away it can be from being soulful.

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seeknotfind

"I'm sorry". What do HN readers think about how this inclusion changes the meaning of the rest of the email?

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