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Sony admits to "overreaching" on PlayStation3's Blu-ray production, no relief for Europe
After Ken Kutaragi straight up told his rivals that he "didn't care" about the so-called competition they were trying to provide, and those very rivals laughed in his face over Sony's countless delays in producing its miracle machine, it seems that we're finally getting a bit of good ole honesty from Sony's "worldwide studios boss," Phil Harrison. Referring to the company's inability to gather up those ever-elusive "blue diodes," he stated that the firm had "overreached in production of the Blu-Ray component," later adding that it was simply the "price you pay for adopting brand new, leading-edge technologies that will be future proof." While we have sincere doubts about any technology being entirely resistant to successors, we certainly appreciate the proclamation that all this delay speculation wasn't without merit. Harrison concluded by suggesting that while these perpetual delays seem like a huge public challenge right now, he's hoping expecting that all the blokes in Europe will be quite forgiving come March of next year, and stated that the entire debacle "will eventually pale into zero." We'll just have to see about that, now won't we?[Via EuroGamer, thanks Garry]
Interesting insight into Microsoft and the Vista debacle from 'their own employees'
"People need to be fired and moved out of Microsoft today. Where's the freakin' accountability?"This quote is from a post titled "Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now!" at Mini-Microsoft, a blog apparently run by an anonymous Microsoft employee who, how shall I say this... isn't exactly happy with the latest delays in what some commenters lovingly refer to as "Service Pack 4." The post is both a gripe about the perpetually missed opportunities of pushing Vista back, as well as a call for an overturn in leadership in a company that more and more industry analysts are dubbing 'a sinking ship.' While the post itself is an interesting read, so are the more than 540 comments from many alleged Microsoft employees. While I don't know how possible it is that Microsoft employees are really behind a lot of this, it is a somewhat insightful read into brewing frustrations with an operating system that was originally slated to land in 2003.[via MacDailyNews]
