[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Sean Edwards]

> They've added thousands of features since then, but 
> are any of 'em worth the bloat?

Easter Eggs!  Don't forget the Easter Eggs!

-=Sean=-


--- Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
> 
> On May 6, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > I imagine they do spend some time doing it, but
> they have a hell of a 
> > lot
> > more legacy to carry around than Apple does. Every
> time they roll out 
> > new
> > APIs, system calls, etc, they have to keep the old
> ones. They've got to
> 
> Seems to me the problem @ Microsoft is
> institutionalizing feature 
> creep. Does anyone really use any features in MS
> Office beyond what 
> Office 97 offered? They've added thousands of
> features since then, but 
> are any of 'em worth the bloat? With size comes
> instability.
> 
> What does anyone expect 10,000 programmers on staff
> to do? I'm guessing 
> they'll keep adding more features/code/mess so their
> checks keep 
> coming, regardless of whether the product is truly
> getting better or 
> not. I'm a programmer. That's what I'd do in a
> company that big.
> 
> Do O/S installs really need to be 1GB+?
> 
> I'm sure Apple has the same phenomenon, but they're
> "clean start" w/ 
> OSX gives them fewer years of unharnessed creeping
> featurism to hasten 
> the inevitable suck.
> 
> "Any system which grows large enough will eventually
> suck."
>     - Jay's Law, Jay Hannah
> "...unless it is written in Java. Then it will suck
> in an object 
> oriented fashion."
>     - Justin's Postulate, Justin Hopkins
> 
> I heard that Longhorn is a *FROM SCRATCH* re-write
> of Windows. I assume 
> the majority of the work is being done in C#.NET.
> Perhaps it will be a 
> clean start for Microsoft.
> 
> j
> Mac / Win2K GUI user
> Linux server user
> 
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