How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?

Posted by chaostheory on Friday November 09, 2007 @12:30AM
from the blogs.msdn.com dept.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericlippert/archive/2003/10/28/53298.aspx

Useful insight, though I found this quote to be... interesting: "At Microsoft we try very, very hard to not release half-baked software."

Then again they do have a much harder task than Apple.

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Re:How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lig... by chaostheory on Friday November 09, 2007 @12:33AM (#77819)

Useful insight, though I found this quote to be... interesting: "At Microsoft we try very, very hard to not release half-baked software."

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Re:How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lig... by gibsonf1 on Friday November 09, 2007 @01:12AM (#77823)

Trying is very different than actually delivering.

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Re:How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lig... by chaostheory on Friday November 09, 2007 @01:33AM (#77827)

well to be fair they do have a much harder job (at least for one organization to do) than Apple...

developing software for a seemingly infinite combos of ever changing pc components can't be easy

(i forgot to add this to my 1st post)

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Re:How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lig... by samwise on Friday November 09, 2007 @02:55AM (#77836)

it's takes 0 employees, they use outsourced robots.

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Re:How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lig... by johnarama on Friday November 09, 2007 @10:54AM (#77909)

Actually, it probably actually takes one MSFT employee to do it, the maintenance guy who's responsible for that particular building! Maybe the exec that just got fired will be that guy soon!!

John http://www.gigatribe.com

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