[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Jay Hannah]

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
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