Michael Cusumano
Michael Cusumano
code complex deciding hopeless starting
They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over. But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure.
caused company innovation integrated strategy
This strategy of integrated innovation has just caused the whole company to go into gridlock,
best managers ship solve three until windows
Three years from now or two years from now, there's still going to be the same mess. It's still too big, too complicated, too many people. Until they solve that fundamental problem, the best managers in the world are still not going to get Windows to ship on time.