I wish HP had not dismissed WebOS. Of all the other smartphones on the market, I really felt like Palm had something solid there and was excited by the fact that HP bought them. I though, just maybe, they can take it and make it into something viable; something that could help them reduce their reliance on Microsoft. Sure it would have taken time, but the possibilities seemed endless. They could differentiated themselves. I wonder if they regret that decision as well.

Steve McConnell is one of the GREAT writers about coding. He wrote the classic book ‘Code Complete’. His books are published by Microsoft Press. Guess what:

Microsoft uses McConnell for prestige while they IGNORE his best practices list. You want to know why Windows Vista was a hell plate of code spaghetti? They didn’t adequately document their code, a direct VIOLATION of a fundamental rule of coding.

Microsoft just don’t give-a-shit. They demonstrate it every day. But tech illiterates don’t notice. That apparently includes a hell-of-a-lot of IT doofuses.

As for Microsoft: Total group think hell hole. What a shame. Take some of the brightest minds in tech and grind them into bad dog food.

We’re all going to look back on this wicked naughty era of parasitic stock manipulators and laugh at them. Meanwhile, the manipulators laugh at the suckers who believed a word they spewed.

It’s time to cease speculation over why Steve Sinofsky left Microsoft

Obviously.

My point: when long-term goals are your focus (rather than quarterly or yearly numbers to please your shareholders), the path that leads you there tends to be very clear.

Microsoft should be embarrassed by its existence.

“a camel is a horse built by committee”

Another Hemingway.

Apple did it with its flavor of UNIX. Who is next?