>Ken wasn't the captain. That's something that people often get wrong. Ken was in charge of marketing.
That's a good point and one of the greatest examples of Parkinson's Law I have ever seen. They took a gifted coding wizard and uber geek and put him into the a role best filled by a fraternity rush-chairman. Absolutely crazy. There are technical folks who have the personality for that job. I like and respect Ken very much but I think MS did him and itself a disservice by mis-matching a brilliant person with a job in which his skills were wasted and to me he always seemed extremely ill at ease. He had a lot of respect and credibility because of his technical acheivements, to be sure, but I think there would have been many better qualified people for that position ( Mac, Menahim, Hennig, Henzten before he was excommunicated ... )
just my unsolicited 2c < s >
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- Thomas Hardy
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