Microsoft Vista and its 10,000 geekoids
Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista -- or , as hackers like to call it, "dinner" -- was released amid great fanfare to business users this week.
If you take 10,000 monkeys and put them in front of keyboards, it is said they will eventually type the entire works of Shakespeare. Using a similar business model, Bill Gates employed an estimated 10,000 geekoids in the past five years to develop his most advanced OS to date. (Personally, if just two of them had been redeployed to fix the Saskatchewan-sized holes in the Windows Millennium Edition our desktop "operates" on, we'd be happy. They don't call ME the yuppie flu for nothing. But we digress.)
The millions of geek-hours and billions of dollars that have gone into producing Vista and the accompanying Office 2007 software suite make it one of the biggest industrial projects of modern times, and certainly the most important IT event of the year.
