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September 30, 2005

Robert Scoble on Microsoft Windows Officially Broken

Posted by Stowe Boyd

Robert weighs in on the controversy sparked from a recent Wall Street Journal article about the messy development processes in Microsoft, and the impacts on Longhorn.

But his clarification -- that it's just the process that's broken, not the product -- doesn't engender a lot of warm fuzzy feelings, especially for those who have lived through Windows hell. It is good -- for those who plan to use their software in the future -- that they are throwing out the bad code that was created by bad processes, but there is no certainty that what comes out of the process in the future will be better.

I am personally working to keep track of what is happening in web apps, not the gargantuan integrated Office-type application suites that Microsoft is interested in. The open source stack -- that is the real challenge to Windows -- is another demonstration that swarm logic works better than centralized, top-down development approaches, in software and everywhere else.

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