The Windows Shutdown crapfest

Posted by henke54 on Nov 25, 2006 11:19 PM EDT
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I worked at Microsoft for about 7 years total, from 1994 to 1998, and from 2002 to 2006. The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time. I spent a full year working on a feature which should've been designed, implemented and tested in a week. To my happy surprise (where "happy" is the freude in schadenfreude), Joel Spolsky wrote an article about my feature. I would like to try to explain how this happened.

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Ouch, yuck, poo, but no surprise. dinotrac 28 1,609 Nov 28, 2006 3:11 AM

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