If you want to understand these people, watch the Daily Beast podcast "Inside Trump's Head" with Michael Wolff. It's a little slow but will paint the picture of their motivations, friendship, falling out, etc etc.
> I'm still kind of surprised it took him that long to learn that software quality had fallen off that far
Isn't that to some extent (or perhaps exactly) what is going on today? All employees at MS are using the polished Enterprise edition without all the cruft and without many of the annoyances. I bet most of them have never tried to use, eg, the home edition. Few of them has probably ever tried to pick a new PC from a retail store full of trialware and "optimizations" made by the retail store.
The point is that most MS employees don't get to see the edition of Windows that we, normal consumers, do.
Yup, I am getting this complaint a lot. Pushing an update by this week with credit usage details. Which model eats how much credit to generate a specific project.
If you had a beefy desktop Vista actually ran very smooth. I happend to have that at the time and I did only have a fraction of the issues that Vista i famous for. Everyone at MS probably also had beefy computer that ran Vista just fine.
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