Microsoft Having a Bad Year
Richard Nantel,
Brandon hall Research,
Mar 04, 2008
Call it the "Stephen Principle" (*). It is the computer analogue to the Peter Principle. It is this: "In a hierarchy, software continues to be developed to the point at which it can no longer function as designed." My first experience with the principle was with WS-FTP, which was a really good FTP client until it was 'improved'. Microsoft has now reached that point with Windows. "[Microsoft] executive Mike Nash's complaint that compatibility problems turned his $2,100 PC into nothing more than an 'email machine.'" (* yet another effort to attain immortality through nomenclature).
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