Right here are several much more holiday-season posts you may have missed if you were absent out of your Computer the past couple of weeks. Microsoft historians are most likely to acquire these hyperlinks especially well-worth a read. Redmond Developer News features a long but fascinating Q&A with Brad Silverberg,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional Plus, the former Microsoft Windows 95 and Internet Explorer chief who went on to help found the Ignition Partners venture-capital firm (whose employee roster reads like a who's who of former Softie big-wigs). The RedDevNews folks got Silverberg talking about his philsophies of managing large development projects,
Office 2010 Activation, as properly as his critique of the Windows Vista development project/process. Among the Silverberg sound bytes: "(Vista's development) was Cairo all over again. It failed for the same reason Cairo failed. I am a believer in incremental development. Get the biggest risk things from the way first and then just continually develop on it; get something done and then build on it. Get the next thing and build on it, get the next thing and build on it. Instead of a big bang. It never works. I worked on a big bang earlier in my career called the Lisa at Apple. It was a big bang-it failed in spectacular fashion." (Individuals who remember tales of Silverberg and Vista leader Jim Allchin's head-to-head disagreements over the future of Windows and the Web could possibly take Silverberg's critiques with a grain of salt.) Over on LiveSide.net, Harrison Hoffman provides an insider's look at the not-so-long, but winding history of Windows Live. If the myriad Windows Live codenames and (non)announcements have left you confused,
Windows 7 32bit, this post is for you. Meanwhile,
Office 2010 Product Key, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop has created an analysis,
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