Today I thought about why MS would spend tens of millions of dollar on a fiasco like vista, instead of pursuing the software as a service vision that BG himself has seen many years ago. This strategic failure has made MS techinically inferior than Google or even Adobe.
I finally got my answer by realizing that software is all about THE PEOPLE that created it.
Even though it will be much better if same amount of effort had been spent to upgrade XP and make it more robust. Those VP, GM and PMs who made the decision to start vista would not be happy. How are they gonna rise up to the next level if they are not starting a new version, a grand new product.
It will be much less glamerous if the same manager just shipped XP SP3.
On the other hand, a failed product like vista will continue to be pushed to the consumer because the company is driven by exactly the same people that made the wrong decision. They need to save their face from falling flap on the ground.
Oh well, if even all these wasted efforts could have made a GM into a competent SVP, maybe it can be eventually justified.
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