[grey_whiskers]

Just a quick Microsoft question here. I know Brian Valentine was instrumental in a push to Offshore much development work a couple of year ago. As reported in Information Week or E-Week or one of those rags, he was quoted: "Think India ! Two for the price of one!"

How much of Windows Vista Bleak Landscape was developed offshore?

The "Cheap Crap" theory.

[Terpfen]

Actually, the Indian programmers were all imported to the Microsoft campus at Redmond. Take a look at the IEBlog--one of the posts has a photograph of the IE development team. All Indian.

I wouldn't exactly blame Vista's delays on the nationality of the programmers, though. This is a management issue, pure and simple. Good programmers are easy to come by--good management is not. Jim Alchin is retiring, so it's not as if Microsoft could fire him, but Ballmer at the least really should go.