There are two ends of an operating system: the application developers on top of the system and the underlying hardware manufactures. It’s a matter of strategy to choose between open or close. Windows opens up to both ends, while Mac OS only opens to the...

Last July I observed a trend of increasing number of posts in several internal job mail groups. I believed it was a sign that things were getting better. Indeed. Now a year later, we can see that the number of posts keep increasing in the past twelve...

There could be many things making testers lack of confidence about the product's quality. But in many people’s eyes, the only way to tangibly prove the product has quality issue is to find new bugs. However, once those bugs are fixed, people start to...

I subscribe to some of the internal job posting mail groups. Many groups publish their job opening of developer, tester and program manager to those groups. I noticed that the monthly volume seems going up steadily (see the chart in below). Is it a sign...

I opened this blog half a year ago. But my product release cycles didn't give me chance to start writing on this blog till now. The earlier release started from last November and shipped in late this April; the later release started from March, before...