[saahtb]

>By far the biggest problem with Windows releases, in my humble opinion, was the duration of each release. On average, a release took about three years from inception to completion but only about six to nine months of that time was spent developing “new” code. The rest of the time was spent in integration, testing, alpha and beta periods — each lasting a few months.

Funny he considers testing a problem. So this is the new Microsoft: testing is not important.

[ealexhudson]

He's not complaining about testing, he's complaining about the length of the iteration cycle. Taking 2 or 3 years to ship 6 months of effort is incredible inefficiency.

[teh_klev]

I've read those two sentences three times, it's not even close to suggesting "testing is not important" or a problem. The problem is the duration of each release and the lack of time spent developing new code.