“Making Xmas with what we have now would be disastruous, moreso than being late. If you’re late, you miss a few hundred millions in sales – maybe. If the crap that I self-host now, which blinks my screen with such ferocity that my head aches, can’t find audio/nic drivers, loses windows messages and sends emails without me wanting to – if this would ship, it would cost a lot more to fix, besides showing the world we’re incompetent.”
– A Microsoft engineer comments (anonymously, of course) on the Vista debacle (via SiliconValley.com)