Microsoft's culture guaranteed Vista delays
TechWeb | at | by Mike
A Microsoft program manager on Thursday pulled a blog entry in which he had claimed that Windows Vista's many delays have been due to overly complicated code and a corporate culture that impose deadlines so unrealistic that slipping is inevitable.
Philip Su, who managed development teams in the Windows group for five years -- and who still works for the Redmond, Wash. company -- called out code interdependencies, an overbearing process that slows down developers, and a culture that forces managers to lie to superiors as the faults that have made Vista the slowest-moving software project in Microsoft's history.