068. The XP eXPerience

"Another release of Office that relies on Windows to make it exciting." —BillG expressing his view of Office while deciding on product naming.

The last months of a product development cycle the scale and length of Office10 are moments of calm punctuated by moments of terror. The calm comes from the lack of code changes as thousands of people test the product while hoping not to find anything requiring code changes. The terror comes from issues that arise when you have little time to change the…