088. Planning the Most Important Windows Ever

"There is no more important project at Microsoft. There's no more important software project in the world. —BillG speaking at the Windows 7 Vision meeting July 27, 2007

One of the main challenges in leading a big team is that nothing ever seems to finish—there’s always more to building a team. Even at milestones, one looks ahead and sees more work to do. In the first few months I had been working on Windows so far, we re-organized the team in a huge way and shipped Windows Vista, only to then have to figure out how to …