14 Apr
2005
14 Apr
'05
10:12 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:
From: "Gregory Whitten" <gregw at
whitten.net>
On the Joel Spolsky subject he was a basically
ignorant junior employee
who left Microsoft after a short number of years.
OUCH! Axe-grinding in public! (More accurately, axe-swinging
post-sharpening.) What happened to mellowing with the years and
all that rot? Sounds like someone needs a (non-Microsoft) life!
[...] The applications group spent
30 man-years integrating custom interfaces for each application with the
Office 95 applications. In Office 98 they tossed it all and went back
to my original suggestion which only took 1.5 man-years to develop and
provided better commonality and learning between the applications.
-and-
I did a few other "minor" things (when I was
not having lunch with Bill)
like setting the object technology strategy for the entire company
including working on the design of OS/2 and an object oriented version
Modest too.