If getting a new product ready for market is time-consuming, it’s 10x worse to try to do a major revision of that product while supporting users! I’ve been down this road many times in the past, but it never fails to impress me as to how much harder it is to make forward progress when you simultaneously have to support users. I wonder how long it would have taken the NT team to deliver 3.1 if they had had users out there, since it took 4 years as it was!
Anyway, I’ve managed to find two days to escape to BlueHat in Redmond, which I’m really looking forward to. I’m a little concerned, though, since I’m here with my Mac, on Wi-Fi, and David Maynor is here…