The Cheezy Blog

With the recent announcement that Bill Gates will no longer be hands-on at Microsoft, I’m reminded of a recent article regarding Windows Vista over at winsupersite.com. The article describes the Windows Development section of Microsoft as the last vestiges of the “Bad old Microsoft,” with Bill Gates being very much the heart of the problem.

Does this mean then that if Bill had stepped back a few years ago, before development on Vista started, we would now have all the features we were promised, such as Avalon, WinFS and so on? I guess we’ll never know, but hopefully now he has taken this step away from the keyboard as it were, we shall see a bit more progress within the Windows Development section towards embracing some of the newer concepts in software design. Rather than just throwing out the same old tired material with a shiny new front end.