I will believe that Google can ship the software if…
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005
With all respect to Mark, I think he is on the wrong track, when he said that Microsoft can’t ship software.
Delivering your platform and other applications to user base of millions is not as simple as checking in your code in your source control system. It needs to be tested for usability, backwards compatibility and if you read Raymond Chen’s blog, you will be aware how gigantic task it is to test system for backwards compatibility and making sure that it works.
Things are comparatively much, much easier when you talk about web applications because by their very nature they don’t need to tested for thousands of hardware/software configurations but merely for 4 or 5 type of browsers. Testing web apps for compatibility is easier and it
