More MS English

[robinturner]

After Bill Gates' mangling of the English language mentioned earlier, I have found another example of MS English ®. This time it comes from Steve Ballmer, attempting to put a shine on Microsoft's abysmal security record: "It's not like horseshoes -- we can't just come close. We have our best brains on it. The issue of customer satisfaction can slow down progress for the whole industry and can help us differentiate ourselves from the competition. It's a defining-moment issue for us."

If Microsoft write software the way they speak, it should be some time before they patch those security holes.

Comments

I disagree your excellency!

[b0rg.livejournal.com]

I wonder why otherwise educated people take some strange (well for me) pleasure in slagging the presentation language of (surprise, surprise) MS CEOs? If you bother to look at Fortune, Forbes or the likes you will see whole load of that high-level marketing bullshit. I wonder do they have a special school for the CEOs where they teach it? Or is it just walk-the-walk talk-the-talk kinda thing.

Risking to start another flame I can tell you one thing: microsoft have a luxury of huge amount of ppl testing their code for bugs, and publically announcing those bugs. Which in turn being fixed. Being in software for about 12 years I can tell you another thing: every computer program (well apart from hello world) has bugs in it, it's only a matter of finding and fixing them. Which they do.

The biggest problem in software as I can see is not the software itself and not the programmers - it's the damn users who always moan for the reason "we want that next best feature", or just moan with no reason at all :-)

i have my best brain cells on it

[hyperina.livejournal.com]

what? i talk this way all the time!