There is hope for Microsoft!

[AtW]

The horrible man who pushed Ribbon tulip, Metro tulip has been given kick up his fat arse -

Microsoft’s Windows President, Steven Sinofsky, Leaves Company Following Launch Of Windows 8 | TechCrunch

[Scoobos]

Funny, I see it as the polar opposite.


Also, you might be interested to know that ribbon was led by Julie Larson-Green , Sinofsky's understudy.

She didn't even have much to do with it, even though she was leading it either, other than playing the game in a big corporate environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdlPKmAJGRs

I know who I'd rather run the show with Windows development.

[fullyautomatix]

Microsoft is a big monster. They really need to cut the workforce and make it lean and come out with innovative products. I have heard of guys writing about a thousand line of code for some feature for the Windows OS and it took a year to approve the code.

[vetran]

I have sort of learned to love the Ribbon, once you have loaded "search commands" from microsoft research and got your head round the idea its pretty good.


Windows 7 is the most stable and instantly usable operating system I have ever seen in the user space. (Linux may have the edge on timex style reliability but 7 is pretty close).

it can even be run secureish.

not sure about metro yet.

[d000hg]

AtW is just still cross he STILL can't understand ribbon. No wonder M12 still can't search for toffee.

[DimPrawn]

AtW is just still cross he STILL can't understand ribbon. No wonder M12 still can't search for toffee.

It is impossible to make a search engine. Only Google can do this. Atw told me this.


toffee at DuckDuckGo
Toffee - Factbites
Web Search - "toffee" - Exalead

etc etc.

[AtW]

Also, you might be interested to know that ribbon was led by Julie Larson-Green , Sinofsky's understudy.

Everybody under Sinofsky would have had to love and do ribbon as otherwise he'd fire them.

Sinofsky made a lot of big design decisions such as Metro tulip - fecking over good release of Windows with bad, perhaps he demanded Ballmer upgrades his office PC from Windows 7?

[Sysman]

She didn't even have much to do with it, even though she was leading it either, other than playing the game in a big corporate environment.

Interview with Julie Larson-Green about Office 2007 and Windows 7 - YouTube

Julie on the Touch screen stuff

[SupremeSpod]

Funny, I see it as the polar opposite.


Also, you might be interested to know that ribbon was led by Julie Larson-Green , Sinofsky's understudy.

She didn't even have much to do with it, even though she was leading it either, other than playing the game in a big corporate environment.

Interview with Julie Larson-Green about Office 2007 and Windows 7 - YouTube

I know who I'd rather run the show with Windows development.

Gordon Letwin