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Story: Campaign group tries to block Vista release

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Longhorn-Vista is a MS's failure by many facts:
1. Longhorn supposed to have different shell - no way...not ready (code name 'MOnad') product...-failure
2. Longhorn supposed to have .net XML serialization of objects mechanizm for SOA architecture of any software working on it -failure.
3. Longhorn supposed to have different file system WinFS - failure...
4. all Microsoft products and product groups supposed to have NEW PROducts working with WinFS - failure...not even close...not even .net conversion had occured in most products ...MSOFFICE, Livemeeting, SharePoint and many many others...

So what is VIsta? - new version of WInXP?

Yes, it is another market campaign from MS to get some $ from UPDATE/fix of OLD OS rather then delivering new OS with new File System....

if not 60 billion in cash that drives the MS sales and marketing - it became a disaster for software industry , on my opinion, and really negative example for software companies how to compete with Betta versions rather then with the real products...

Another really bad factor for MS success that amount of groups and products have been grown out in such rapid speed that not a single product can be released by One Year life cycle - new life cycle for MS products...
Another factor -People are underpaid and decieved in their expectations of being Millioners in 7 years...(hired in 1997-2000) but politically they have occupied the middle management positions...and they are neither productive nor competive in their technology knowledge...another pay check mentality corporation...
another factor -India and people from India came to MS and now runs almost every MS hierarchical structures...which brings India mentality into American Software...and by personal experience the quality of people, because of community mentality and hiring politics -friends, wifes,brothers,sisters and etc..who have no idea of computers...but...- that is another problem for gigant that tries to offshore the products to India...
Offshore never worked and won't work because of tremendous growth of request in India for EDUCATED people but lack of producing such AMOUNT OF qualified personnel by Education school limits...and etc...therefore, brotherhood works but free market competition - does not...

Anyhow, MS has delivered so many products to the market that won't be completed never by many reasons:
1. Products are written in different technologies and can not play catch up with the most advanced groups such as .net...
2. Products has been bought (acquired by MS) by reasons to get customers to MS and in many cases just killing the architecture initially built in because of enforcing MS products to be used in the software that ...as anybody knows have problems ...more products you are enforcing to work with bought PAckage - more buggy it became...Examples, LIvemeeting group (RTC), OLAP group(SQL Server), Navision (MBS) and many many others...
The initial amount of developers is growing so is out of control of the product...groups became more hierachical and less productive ...and products became slow in bringing new technologies into market , also need to remember the 'technology debt' reason...more product is changed(more years in the market) more complicated and expensive became new development and update...
and etc...

I am confident that MS will be dead in 9-10 years as a software company...not as a markting company ..but as a reliable software and products that can be utilized by businesses for money paid ....

And I have to admitt that even I have been developing software with Microsoft technologies and my food on the table has come from Microsoft's issues and gaps - I still can not support marketing examples of Microsoft's success stories...integrity and reliability must be in the product that sold to customers...which is absolutely not the case for Microsoft products....

Regards,
Alex Deiden

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