Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: software, engineering, and microsoft
From: Afterswift@aol.com
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 19:35:24 EDT

In a message dated 10/4/03 4:28:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, psu@kvdpsu.org 
writes:

> Whatever else you say about Microsoft, the fact that they were able to 
>  literally turn on a dime and decide to dominate the internet browser 
>  was one of the most impressive feats of ruthless management that I've 
>  witnessed. As someone who has worked in software for a decade, I can 
>  tell you that it is decidedly not easy to do something like that.
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As a friend who works at MS told me, you have to know who to assign to what 
and then campaign day and night until the work is done. And then people relax. 
That is, get home at a more normal time. 

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