David Card: Longhorn sounding like Cairo

August 31 2004

This whole "Longhorn" replan isn't really a major focus of mine -- as I said last week, I tend to wait until a Microsoft product is close to shipping or has shipped before thinking about its features.  I have been reading the other blogs about it, though.  Thus, this quote from Jupiter Research's David Card really got my attention, and made me chuckle:

I'll defer the Longhorn heavy-lifting to my colleagues. But I can't pass this up:
"Our scheduling and predictability on this project has been better than it was on OS/360."
- Bill Gates, August 2004

bwahahahahahahahahah

The best BillG can come up with is a comparison with an IBM operating system project from 1964??!!! And it's a bad comparison. ...
You'd think Microsoft had learned a little about OS project management in the forty years since IBM invented the practice.
(via Network World Compendium)

Ed Brill | Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Microsoft  Add/View Comments [2]

Post a Comment

  1. 1  Bill Geimer  | 8/31/2004 11:25:24 AM

    I know I have a copy of "The Mythical ManMonth" laying around somewhere that I can send Billy Gates. It might help with LongerHorn.

  1. 2  Philip Storry  | 8/31/2004 6:00:32 PM

    It won't help at all with Longhorn.

    But if you did send him a copy, I wouldn't at all be surprised to hear about a new book from Bill a shirt while later. Probably called "The Hypothetical Human Hour".

    ;-)