Robert Scoble is busy defending Microsoft. He says:
Everyone lately has been saying "Microsoft is slow" or "Microsoft can't react to Google" or "Microsoft has lost it." Oh yeah? Come back on Monday. [...] this team -- in less than seven months -- designed, built, tested, and delivered a pretty darn cool new product
Huh? The post topic was WinFS... but I doubt that's it. Maybe he's talking about the quickly-becoming-antiquated IE? Nah... This new team has only been around for 7 mos, and Microsoft has claimed numerous times that the IE team was never disbanded. Besides the IE PM has only been decrying (I believe in a video on Channel 9) that IE is perfect and doesn't need any tabs (or any features of modern browsers)... pshaw. Everyone knows he's wrong... but hey he's been drinking the MS-juice too long.
Maybe they're talking about Monad - the MS fix for the pathetic, aging command-line / scripting environment that was outdone by CSH back in 1976. LOL. Nah, Monad has experienced numerous delays... the first demo was supposed to be at PDC 2003 (11/2003, canceled), MMS2004 (9/2004, canceled). So this project has been around too long.
Maybe he means MSN Search? But so far it appears to be a joke. Sitting at PDC2003, I remember a story related to me by a softie that sums up the MS situation:
I remember when we would post a webpage, but couldn't search it for days because it took a few days for it to be loaded into the index [EDIT: I got the feeling they sent an email to somebody to point the indexer at the given directory]... but Google had it indexed in mere hours, sometimes before the search guys even knew the page existed. Those guys used to scream: "How did they do that!!"
I guess we'll see... stayed tuned.
posted @ Sunday, December 12, 2004 4:13 PM