From: "Geo" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Well, it's a mature organization so that's not unexpected.  In so many
> organizations, the people in the trenches (and this includes MS) really,
> really want to do great things for the company that employs them.  But
> when you have an organization that needs to co-ordinate so much work
> because certain changes can have a huge ripple effect it's not surprising
> that bureaucracy becomes so stultifying.

If they designed truly modular software, the ripples would be stopped at
the module borders..

Geo.

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