Tandy Trower: Magnificent Insight from Windows 1.0 Product Manager
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Must Read. I liked this part
At that point Windows was no longer considered the company’s star project, as it had become a bit of an embarrassment. Even internally there were doubts among some in the company that Windows would ever ship. Also, because Ballmer had already burned though four product managers to try to get there–people who now had been either reassigned or were no longer at Microsoft–the product was developing a reputation for career death.