There’s an odd post over on CrunchGear. They seem to be talking about this post from the Engineering 7 blog (which we covered on Friday also) although it is not actually linked to as far as we can tell. CrunchGear refer to an ‘ordinary Joe developer’ (presumably because the article from The Register that they had read also used that phrase).

As we noted in our post (and as a commenter on the CrunchGear post also notes) that ‘average Joe’ is actually Larry Osterman. Larry has been at Microsoft for 24 years and is one of the most experienced members of the Windows team (and Microsoft in general).

You should read the Engineering Windows 7 post. It is well thought out and explains the process well. The Register has a reasonable summary. But CrunchGear seems to have struggled grasping the main purpose of the post.

For a good laugh read some of the comments on The Register post. Looks like we fan boys are in the minority. I’ve never really understood why Linux zealots spend so much time trashing Windows (and note we have a lot of Linux around the place here – it is great for many things).

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