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Can Microsoft's army of programmers write software for the Web? Judging by a spate of recent outages, no. Hotmail, Messenger, and other services targeted at developers and partners have broken down recently. Which is bizarre: Writing an operating system is a vastly more complex affair than coding a website. "Like war versus paintball," says Ted Dziuba, the programmer and former editor of startup-debunker blog Uncov. Therein lies Microsoft's problem. Once you've trained to fight a real war, you can forget about winning at paintball.
Explains Dziuba:
When you play with someone who has been in the military, they spend 10 minutes before the match going over strategy when all you really want to do is play. In the end, the civilians on the team end up shooting the marine because he's barking orders to everyone on the field who is just trying to have a good time.Microsoft bid $44.6 billion for Yahoo to get a paintball team. Can you imagine what will happen when they send in the marines from Redmond? "War" does not begin to describe it.
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And once you go black you never go back. I think that applies here, too.
Fairly good analogy.
I think standardizing on the Windows platform has a little bit to do with it, too.
Owen are you completely "damaged" to put a photo of a paintball guy in a IIIrd Reich Wehrmacht uniform on ValleyWag??? Least I can say it is bad taste & totally politically incorrect!
I don't question the article but I wonder seriously what you are aiming at w/ that photo? Couldn't you at least replace the photo please. I admit one might say that I am not the best positionned to criticize you. Sometimes I am impulsive & write obscure stuff... Partly because people 'push' me into playing the class clown and partly because it is a state that is hard to control for me. But at least I am manic depressive & sometimes, even if I wish, I can't do otherwise.
You seem to be sane it seems. So why did you this? This ain't funny at all. I can't laugh about such things...
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