https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/windows/Recent content in windows on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-06-15-more-finger-pointing-about-vista/Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-06-15-more-finger-pointing-about-vista/Some of the things I have written about in the past have been about software failure. It should be no surprise then that I am linking to this detailed post about the Windows Vista slippage and the circumstances that the poster claims to have made the “largest software project ever” becoming “also the longest”: They knew months in advance that the schedule would never work. So they told their VP. And he, possibly influenced by one too many instances where engineering re-routes power to the warp core, thus completing the heretofore impossible six-hour task in a mere three, summarily sent the managers back to “figure out how to make it work.