Microsoft has a well-established history of producing buggy products that miss their release dates. It's an easy joke to make: Microsoft usually takes at least 3 major versions before they produce what should have been "version 1.0". But that's all changing with the work to build Windows Vista (aka Longhorn). Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software talks about what went on behind the scenes to change the way they build software products in Redmond.

I happily left Windows for Mac OS X more than 3 years ago, and I have absolutely no intention of ever, ever going back. But I'm looking forward to the eventual release of Windows Vista (in 2006? 2007? even later than that?), where we'll be able to see if they pulled it off.