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by mikestew 1044 days ago
Man, I normally have some respect for Spolsky's writing, but this one is overly-dismissive crap. Sure, Microsoft really needed to reel in the 13 versions of OneDrive they kept releasing and rereleasing, but that's the only part of the article that aged even remotely well.

"And the fact that customers never asked for this feature and none of the earlier versions really took off as huge platforms doesn’t stop him."

Go ahead, try and take away that feature now, see if any customers complain.