The “Break it Down” Blog

Saw this writeup on Slashdot, is anyone surprised that THIS is his management style, and the end result is Vista? I have to say that as soon as I used Vista and saw what 5 years of work had wrought, I freaking called it. You don’t need a degree in Asshole to know that type of management style will realized a product as mis-guided, discontiguous, disorganized and buggy as Vista.

I’ve had an opportunity to work for people like this before, and the resulting project was identical to how Vista turned out. Made no sense, every week “Priority #1″ was something different, and not determined by any intelligent estimation, but instead by how pissed off the manager was and how much screaming he did. So whatever he screamed about on Friday’s meeting was Priority #1 for the next week… until the next Friday when he didn’t care about that issue anymore and it was something else.

Personality types like this are the most poisonous in any kind of relationship (work, personal, etc.) and never bears any sort of recognizable fruit.

Actually I don’t even think I need to type the last sentence… the result speaks for itself doesn’t it?

• Vista is a Failure – Microsoft’s Actions Agree
• New Vista Laptops Take Ages to Boot
• Why Windows Vista Sucks
• Mac to Gain More Market Share
• Microsoft Already Working on Vista Replacement