Architecture astronauts take over

10.April2008
It was seven years ago today, when all excited that I get about Microsoft bombastic announced in the hail and promising that "does hail of technology in your life to work together on your behalf and under its control."

As it was, indeed? The idea that the future operating system was on a network of Microsoft cloud, and you should subscribe to everything with Windows and not all of their cases would be up there. It shows: no need for this place for all its affairs. And nobody trusted Microsoft, all their affairs. Hail and went away.

I've tried to coin the term for the type of people who invented hail: architecture astronauts. "This is certainly a tip-off to the fact that you have been infected by the Architecture Astronaut: The incrediBle amount of bombast, and the heroic, utopian grandiloquence, and boastfulness, the complete lack of reality. And people buy it! Commercial printing is wild!"

The hallmark for the architecture astronaut is that they are not in the real solution to the problem ... will address what appears to be a template for a lot of problems. Or at least try. Since 1988, many prominent architecture astronauts were convinced that the biggest problem to address is synchronization.

Watch the story here. I started picking on one company, which appeared to be particularly astronautish: Groove, who tried to restore Lotus Notes (synchronization giant machine) to peer-to-peer.

Groove had some early success, to secure the network in the military-industrial complex, but has not been a big crimp in addition niche. Their real success was in getting bought by Microsoft, which brought Groove is a designer and head of the architecture astronaut-Ray Ozzie, in the role of "Major Software Architect" to Microsoft, allegedly technical chlapa, which would keep inventing the future after BillG to the left, so that Steve Ballmer, have some new territory on which to build further its illegal monopoly.

And now Ray Ozzie is a great success will come and what is it? (drumroll. ..) Microsoft Live ok. The future of everything. Microsoft is "moving into the cloud."

What is Microsoft Live ok?

Hmm, let us go and see.

"Imagine all of your equipment-computers, and soon Macs and mobile phones-to work together to give you anywhere access to information you care about."

Wait a minute. Something here rot suspect. It's not exactly what the hail should be? I feel with the architecture astronaut.

And what is Windows Live ok?

It is a way to synchronize files.

God, we had to forever. When the first synchronization website to start coming out? 1999? There were one million versions. xdrive, mydrive, idrive, youdrive, wealldrive on ice cream. Nobody is care and nobody cares now, because the synchronization of files is not the only killer application. Sorry. It seems like it should be. But it is not.

But Windows Live ok, not just a way to synchronize files. This is only a sample of PhD. It's the whole goddamned architecture, with the API and developer tools and fabulously diagram showing all the layers of helpful shortcuts, and it seems like the captain of astronauts in Microsoft literally expect that this is their huge platform in the sky, which will take over when Windows becomes irrelevant on the desktop. A synchronization of files to be like the equivalent of Microsoft Windows Write to 1.0.

The Groove, rewritten from the beginning, once more. Ray Ozzie simply can not stop rewriting this damned app, again and again and again, and in every 5-7 years time.

And the fact that customers never asked for this feature, and none of the earlier versions really zul as a huge platform does not stop him.

How on earth, Microsoft continues to pour massive resources into building the same pitomý synchronization platforms again and again? Damn, they just finished building the so-called Windows Live FolderShare and I have noticed is not exactly to the Stampede. I'll bet you've never heard. At the 3398th website, which allows you to upload and download files to place on the Internet. I am so fever I might just die.

I would really not one. What Microsoft shareholders want their money building waste, instead of earning good dividends of two or three fabulous monopoly, it is not my business. I am not a shareholder. It is a bit concerned about me, intellectually, that there are those people running around acting like they are building the next big thing, for us to maintain the exact same TV dinner that I did not want on Sunday evening, and I did not want to, when they tried to serve again Monday evening, and you crunched it and mixed in some cheeses, and I did not eat Tuesday night, and here it is in the middle and you have rebuilt the entire damned TV industry dinner on the ground, and you have me 1955 Salisbury steak that I simply do not want to. What is it will take you to get the message that customers do not want what architecture astronauts just love to build. The people? Their love štěbetat. A flickr and delicious and Picasa and tripit and ebay and one million other things, entertainment, who want to " synchronization problem is not the real problem, it's entertainment programming that you're doing, because it's just hard enough to be interesting, but not so hard that you can not see it.

Why do I really care is that Microsoft is vacuuming up too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their questionable unethical employers making explosive offers nothing to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you're on my radar) unsustainable paying the salaries of children Ultimate Frisbee with more experience than Python, whose main task will play Foosball in the Googleplex and walk around trying to get someone ... someone will come ... look at the sample code, which only with the written "20% of the time," doing any kind, I will argue, cloud-based synchronization ... Microsoft and Google among the initial salary for chip CS grad is slow dangerously close to six figures and those smart kids, the cream in our universities, working in hopeless and pointless architecture astronomy, because these companies are, such as cancer, driven by growth at all costs, even if they can not think for a single useful thing to build for us, but they need another sci Grads 3000-4000 company next week. A hell Foosball plays himself.