A.P. Lawrence

Microsoft abuse

Thu May 6 14:40:05 GMT 2004 Microsoft abuse

Link: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/8591461.htm

``If you do all the fundamentals, you don't get a lot of credit,''
Jim Allchin, who heads of Microsoft's Windows division, told the
audience of hardware engineers and developers. ``If you mess up
the fundamentals, you get all the abuse.''

Jim's absolutely right to whine. It's just not fair: just because you build a crappy product and concentrate on glitz rather than making it work well is no reason for people to be abusive.

Imagine if people screamed at GM just because their keyless entry systems made it easy for thieves to steal the cars. Gosh, that wouldn't be GM's fault, and stuff like MSBLAST, Code Red and the latest Sasser surely aren't any reason to heap abuse on poor Microsoft.

If Microsoft had wasted money on fundamentals, think of all the sacrifices that might have had to be made: we might not have talking paper clips! Fortunately, Microsoft knows where to direct its resources.

Psst - Wanna work for yourself?

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