An ex-Microsoft developer talking about the difficulty in creating something as simple as the off button in Vista.
Also each team was separated by 6 layers of management from the leads, so let’s add them in too, giving us 24 + (6 * 3) + 1 (the shared manager) 43 total people with a voice in this feature. Twenty-four of them were connected sorta closely to the code, and of those twenty four there were exactly zero with final say in how the feature worked.
If every one of Vista’s features has to go through this kind of bullshit I completely understand why Vista sucks to much.
