By the way, remember last week when I said Microsoft doesn’t care about influentials because we don’t support Firefox and didn’t get it working in Live.com …
Well, last night I had sushi with Sanaz Ahari (and Chris Pirillo and Ponzi Indharasophang). You might not know Sanaz, but she’s one of the key team members that’s building live.com.
She apologized for not getting Firefox support done. She told me she, and her team, had been working 18 hour days to meet last Tuesday’s deadline and she got sick the week before launch so simply didn’t get it done. She says, on her blog, it’ll be “very very soon.”
It’s another reminder to me that software isn’t written by machines, it’s written by people, and when deadlines hit sometimes you can’t get it all done and have to prioritize what’s most important to get done.
She also says that Live.com has a lot more to come and that it shouldn’t be judged on its first day in business. It’s now my home page, so I’ll report when new goodies show up.
Update: Scott Isaacs, the guy who invented a lot of DHTML stuff and who is building the framework underneath Live.com, Hotmail, MSN Spaces, and others, just posted his thoughts on this topic and post.
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