Re: OT: I knew there was a reason I liked Google

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

As I've mentioned since February when I first heard of
Lucovsky going to Google, I was wondering when the heck he
would.

Microsoft has _trashed_ Win32.
And they didn't even give .NET a chance.

Microsoft takes existing concepts and create great core APIs.
Then their application division _totally_ignores_them_ and
keeps using legacy APIs, eventually _destroying_ the new
ones.

Lucovsky was one of the brains behind Win32, which no longer
exists as he designed it (and really hasn't since 1994 and
the subsequent NT3.51 "Daytona" release).

And he was also a master of taking the existing Java code and
putting it to work as a core OS API, with improved security
and other things beyond what even Sun had thought of.  But as
we all know, the .NET OS is _dead_ and we have been left with
little more than "Indigo" services atop of Win32 (really no
different than Java atop of Win32) that are only used for
non-Windows (i.e., non-ADS/SMB/etc...) web services.

Microsoft was stupid and outsourced their web search and
other web development years ago.  In the last 2 years, with
their brain drain to Google, they have now realized that by
ignoring the web as a platform, they have handed the desktop
future to Microsoft.  Microsoft thought the competitor was an
application that leveraged the Internet, and never realized
it was a services platform built on, for and around the
Internet.

So it sounds like when Marc took the Google job last fall
(his destination wasn't publicly known until a Microsoft
employee blogged about it in February of this year), as much
as he wanted to escape the madness of a company that took his
ideas and let the application developers run them over, he
waited until the right player came along.

Microsoft knows its desktop days are numbered.


--- Chris Jensen <cj.kosh@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ran across this in the Win2K newsletter:
> Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to "kill" Google in an 
> expletitive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior
> engineer 
> told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google,
> the 
> engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.
> 
> In a sworn statement made public Friday, Mark Lucovsky,
> another 
> Microsoft senior engineer who left for Google in November
> 2004, 
> recounted Ballmer's angry reaction when Lucovsky told
> Ballmer 
> he was going to work for the search engine company.
> 
> "At some point in the conversation, Mr. Ballmer said: 'Just
> tell 
> me it's not Google,'"Lucovosky said in his statement.
> Lucovosky 
> replied that he was joining Google.
> 
> "At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it
> across 
> the room hitting a table in his office," Lucovosky
> recounted, 
> adding that Ballmer then launched into a tirade about
> Google 
> CEO Eric Schmidt. "I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I
> have 
> done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to
> f***ing 
> kill Google." Schmidt previously worked for Sun
> Microsystems and 
> was the CEO of Novell. There is more at news.com
> <http://news.com>
> http://www.w2knews.com/84KND/050912RN-Kill_Google
> 


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