Michael Cusumano
Michael Cusumano
behaves believe chaos currently group last management several stands tolerate windows
I do not believe the Windows group as it currently stands and behaves in the last several years is really under his management he's not the kind of person to tolerate this chaos and complexity.
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.
company fired half
I think they would be a better company if they fired half the employees.
address core seem windows
But this doesn't seem to do anything to address the core Windows problem: Windows is too big and too complex.
bill gates ray reputation technical tremendous
Ray Ozzie is someone with a tremendous technical reputation and an outsider, who Bill Gates trusts, and he's come in and said things have to change.
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.
created difficult problem
The problem is it's just created a much too big of an organization, much too difficult to manage, much too slow, so it's not an organization.