voyeur: chum in the water

If you haven't already tuned in, there's a veritable orgy of self-loathing going on over at Mini-Microsoft in a post titled Vista 2007. Fire the Leadership Now!

It's a fascinating look behind the curtain into the collective thinking of the working class as they rail against the many failures of the bourgeoisie they blame for. . .for. . .missing a ship date.

I'm waiting for some MSFTie to adopt the nom de plume of marxengel, then team up with another guy with the logon robspierre_roxxors and then the real fun will start. Cue La Marsellaise for added angst:

Let's go children of the fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us tyranny's
Bloody flag is raised! (repeat)
In the countryside, do you hear
The roaring of these fierce soldiers?
They come right to our arms
To slit the throats of our sons, our friends!

Refrain

Grab your weapons, citizens!
Form your batallions!
Let us march! Let us march!
May impure blood
Water our fields!

Job #1 for Vista should be getting it right - you can crucify MSFT for being "late", but how much worse will it be if they ship a product that is broken from "go"? There is a simple solution - instead of turning an assignment to the bug patrol into the equivalent of a trip to the gulag, each of the engineers at MSFT (if they don't already) should have a specific named portion of their workload designated to fixing bugs. Saaaay, 20%.