17th May 2006, 4:32 PM
In reading various blogs about MS, it is very clear that while the marketting department may not want to admit it, MS is basically currently divided into "Old MS" and "New MS". Old is the one responsible for a lot of very bad decisions. For example, the weird integration of IE into Windows a long time ago (which didn't provide much of a bonus at all, IE could easily have been as standalone as notepad and Windows didn't get any benefits from it).
It seems the last vestiges of "old MS" are still working in the OS department, and apparently Bill Gates himself is part of that old system by their review. As a result, they are trying to fix the blunders they made in the past, and in a few departments they have a fresh start. Everything I've seen so far says the people working with the 360 aren't evil automatons but people who actually like games.
It seems the last vestiges of "old MS" are still working in the OS department, and apparently Bill Gates himself is part of that old system by their review. As a result, they are trying to fix the blunders they made in the past, and in a few departments they have a fresh start. Everything I've seen so far says the people working with the 360 aren't evil automatons but people who actually like games.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)