"Simonyi explains, 'It was impractical, when Microsoft was making tremendous strides with .Net in the near term, to somehow send somebody out from the same organization who says, "This is not how you should do things--what if you did things in this other, more disruptive way?'" (Quote from "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta", Tuesday, January 9, 2007, Scott Rosenberg, Technology Review. Archived 20 September 2020 at archive.today)
"Simonyi explains, 'It was impractical, when Microsoft was making tremendous strides with .Net in the near term, to somehow send somebody out from the same organization who says, "This is not how you should do things--what if you did things in this other, more disruptive way?'" (Quote from "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Meta", Tuesday, January 9, 2007, Scott Rosenberg, Technology Review. Archived 20 September 2020 at archive.today)