Listening to: For Us - Pete Yorn

The ever provocative Joel Spolsky had a bit of a go at the new Vista start menu thingie:

I’m sure there’s a whole team of UI designers, programmers, and testers who worked very hard on the OFF button in Windows Vista, but seriously, is this the best you could come up with?

The read I found more interesting was the response by the guy who did the programming:

The most frustrating year of those seven was the year I spent working on Windows Vista, which was called Longhorn at the time. I spent a full year working on a feature which should’ve been designed, implemented and tested in a week.

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