Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant

Re:Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant by GrandMasterBirt on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @10:20PM (#227082)

Its 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.

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Re:Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant by holygoat on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @02:32AM (#227253)

MS's QA is oriented towards making sure that individual pieces function, not that the right thing happens. Their aim is 100% automated unit testing... but nobody ever tests that doing something is intuitive.

The UX folks do, but that doesn't mean they get their way.

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Re:Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant by GrandMasterBirt on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @09:25AM (#227456)

MS having unusable products is like Exxon not selling fuel. Very quickly users will abandon windows in favor of Apple if it gets too bad.

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Re:Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant by RobertL on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @12:57AM (#227188)

ain't gonna happen GMB.. ain't gonna happen.

I do agree with your observation though..... I'm just not as optimistic in regard to the outcome.

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