This appears to be a pretty old letter. I was looking for his email exchange (now part of the public record) where he disses Microsoft efforts to come up with an MP3 player competitor to the iPod.
I found that exchange but then I also found this one. It's quite interesting, and it helps to know that the LH that he refers to is "Longhorn", aka Vista.
I think that its to Microsoft's credit that someone as senior as Alchin (co-president of the Microsoft Platform division) is this frank about the shortcomings of something as important as Vista. One just hopes that he is as frank when talking up as well as down.
Eric Rudder, to whom the email is addressed, is now the Senior Vice President, Technical Strategy at Microsoft.
Posted by artandscience at January 24, 2007 05:19 AM