Microsoft reviews

Vista shipped. Seriously. I wonder how many members of the Vista team actually run OS X at home? Limited upside of equity, lack of a coherent strategy for the future. The whole Yahoo! debacle brings the latter point into sharp relief. I mean, come on, the consumer-facing Net stuff has largely been a failure and the response to that is to attempt to buy, at great expense, another failure.

With the expansion, more and more bureaucratic and politics, less and less innovation. Now there are plenty of people working on internal development and release process, rules and guidelines, way too many of them are invented. There are redundencies, waste of resources, both by developing them and time spent to learn and adjust to thm. Every couple of years, it is definitely there is new internal tools and processes replacing old ones with no good reason. Now it is evident that to advance your career you need to go with managerial track, where senior technical people now spend time do adminitrative work. Also people good at political game get promoted fast. People can argue this is inevitable to a big company, but no one can argue this is a good thing to a techincal company.