He'd better hope things do cool down before microsoft figures out his name. Most large companies have policies about posting things anonymously because it leads to people stating things about their companies that are not flattering, intentionally or otherwise.

I'm not saying I agree or disagree with his point of view, but I'm sure his blog post wasn't necessarily appreciated by microsoft management. He should definitely hope he remains anonymous.

"...the only thing worse than slipping the date, would have been to lay a turd in August"

Oh, still worse than that is laying a turn in 2007, which is what I predict Microsoft will do.

How typically Microsoft, so up his own ass he can't actually seee the writing on the toilet wall. Do they clone their workers?

Sure, great stuff.

But this was a story about 3 weeks ago.

I think they need to put Prozac in the rain in Redmond. Geez.

Quick Mini! DUCK!!!! 8(

Seriously, this is part of why Microsoft is in decline as a company that can execute worth a darn... they'd rather shoot the messenger than improve. No doubt they'll fire poor Mini if they get their hands on him. And for what? Caring about his company?

Oh well.

How do you have passion about a company like M$? Don’t you have to be deranged… or on psychedelic drugs?

Still, you can’t help but feel pity for a person who has fallen so low.

Reading through some of the comments I kept seeing a common point; Vista has had so many things promised and then dropped that now there's no compelling reason to upgrade from XP when it does arrive. This has been MS's problem for a number of years. In our office we haven't even finished moving from Win2000 to XP simply because functionally there's no pressing advantage to XP. We didn't even start installing XP until SP2 came out and I won't start installing Vista until SP1 and likely SP2 is out for it. MS has too long a history of "laying a turd" and then fixing it with service packs. So I don't see Vista being a huge success. MS will crow about initial sales but it won't be a Win95 stampede.

BTW several comments mentioned "Client appcompat %". I'm not a coder and don't work for MS so does anyone know what that means?

there really wasn't much a reason to upgrade to tiger either...

os 9 to panther is what i, and i'm sure a vast majority of the user base, did upgrade to (everything up to panther was miserably buggy, but at least the progress was made in such a short time.)

due to virtualization, i will upgrade to 10.5 this winter.

thats 2 MAJOR (OS X then 10.5 -- i would consider the migration to a new chipset pretty major) upgrades since 2001... around the same time XP came out...

Microsoft simply needs to tell all the people out there to s*** or get off the pot and drop support for everything up to vista, thats what apple did... they ended up with an incredibly elegant, stable OS with just enough emulation of the former OSes to allow a smooth(ish) transition for most users... the longer they keep using 20+ year old technology in their OS, the longer it's gonna look (and more importantly, perform) like a 20+ yr old OS...

people are still using windows 95 on their main computer for heaven's sake!!!

How do you get passionate about working for Microsoft?

Well considering it has spawned more stock millionaire's than probably any other company in history, I can understand how somebody could become passionate about that.

Exact same reason Monkey Boy did his jig, do you think he loves Microsoft for it's products? No way, he loves em cause his no-talent lucky-to-get-a-job-as-a-shoe-salesman ass became a bazzillionaire because of Microsoft.

Wow. A blogger has an opinion. You should write an article about that.

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there really wasn't much a reason to upgrade to tiger either...

I'd disagree there. Between Spotlight and the significantly faster OS performance, Tiger was an upgrade I was glad to buy, and would do so again.

Vista, on the otherhand, is starting to look more and more like just another Service Pack for Win XP. Not compelling, that.