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| Time: 07:22 EST/12:22 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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After five years in development and endless feedback from Allchin and thousands of other testers, Vista is ready for the masses. It will hit store shelves on Tuesday. One day later, Allchin, as promised, will retire after 16 years with the software maker. It's not yet clear how Allchin's latest product will affect his legacy. While early reviews of the operating system have been lukewarm, Allchin said he is confident that time will show Vista to be a significant improvement over previous versions of Windows. | ||
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| #1 By 13797 (206.194.127.223) at 1/29/2007 11:58:02 AM |
| I recall this announcement from before. Anyone know whether the former head of Office development, Steven Sinofsky, is still getting the job as head of Windows dev? |
| #2 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 1/29/2007 4:20:13 PM |
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Of all the executives at Microsoft, I admire Mr. Allchin the most. He is a courageous man. I have heard that Mr. Sinofsky will replace him in one of his roles - I wish him luck - he has some mighty big shoes to fill. I will forever be grateful that he influenced how XP SP2 would be shipped - exactly that way, as a service pack and thus avoiding all the ramps that would have gone with a full release. Anyone servicing Windows PC's before that certainly recalls just how bad the security issues had become - not for machines we managed, but for the weight of the attacks as coming from compromised Windows systems as operated by novice users, or under-protected systems around the world. XP SP2 helped end that and how badly COM had come to be abused by very bad people. We're still not out of those woods entirely, but Mr. Allchin's influence sure helped a lot. He deserves a lot of credit for a great many things, but for that one decision, alone, I'll always remember his work.
I learned that the proper definition of "Character" was one's ability to recognize right from wrong and choose to do the right thing, regardless of the personal consequences - in our industry's dictionary, an image of Mr. Allchin next to the word, character, would not be out of place. |
| #3 By 7754 (216.160.8.41) at 1/29/2007 5:25:07 PM |
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#2: I agree. Of all the people I would most like to meet from Microsoft, it would be Allchin and Cutler.
Some people complain constantly that "Windows XP is 5 years old" (they're the same ones that say "XP is good enough; I'll never upgrade to Vista!!!! Arghh blargh I like to complain about everything yar blargh arrrrghhh"), and Allchin is to blame. Yet, they don't realize that they received essentially a free OS upgrade--and all of us can thank Allchin for that. It was definitely a big consumer win. |
| #4 By 16797 (70.48.255.136) at 1/29/2007 10:11:45 PM |
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#2 People praise Allchin - yet I am not so sure he should be. I mean, after leading Vista development for several years, then, in 2004, he realized the whole project had to be "reset".
I mean.. you lead project for years and then you tell that "it would not work" and that it has to be "reset"?? After 2 or 3 years? |
| #5 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 1/30/2007 7:43:28 AM |
| #4, That's certainly one side of the argument and the side that has been driven by perception - which is often as cruel as it is inaccurate. I do think the accurate answer is that Vista is both more and less than it was intended to be at that time. I also think a lot happened during that time across the net and in our industry in general. From our own experience, we came to see Windows XP as the stable, yet available platform we had all hoped for - more stable that W2K Pro, and as available in the context of device driver support and media as Win9x was. All that changed as each week went by and new and more powerful mal-ware harvested under-protected systems. The net grew. Broadband grew and cheap, but very powerful PC's became available to people with little experience in protecting them. As that all happened, what Vista needed to become was evident and building it as they were was not going to work. Faced with that set of challenges, Microsoft and Mr. Allchin had choices - fix it and fix the development processes that drive it, or not. They chose to fix it and we're all better off for it. |
| #6 By 16797 (142.46.227.65) at 1/30/2007 11:26:30 AM |
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#5 Oh, come on.. Windows XP was released in 2001 and I assume "full-speed" Vista development started sometime after that. Are you telling me that in 2001 (or later) they were still not well-aware of more and more powerfull malware, etc, etc?
From the interviews with Allchin that I was able to read, problem was not security-related, it was build-related. They had problems putting all new Windows components together and making them work reliably. Testing was taking too much time, things were getting too complex, etc, etc. The only thing, that makes Allching less guilty, in my eyes, is that I don't know of any other project of that size and complexity. Having said that, come on.. the guy missed the deadline by, what, 2+ years??? Allchin simply underestimated the whole thing. It was too big to be delivered at once, plus many things in build process had to be changed to make it possible. I think he should have forseen that. |
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