Pete Wright: "My Microsoft career is now officially over"

Coming to the rescue once again, digg's users have highlighted a fairly prominent Windows coder's testimony of a switch to Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux.

Pete Wright, a (former) Windows developer who made Microsoft's 'influencer' lists by working for such clients as American Express and Enron, has said goodbye to Redmond. "Today, I've resigned to leave that world behind forever, and I couldn't be happier," Pete exclaimed in a fairly lengthy blog post back in September. Pete cites Microsoft's inability to innovate and Vista's aura of 'Service Pack 3-ness', as well as "buggy, overpriced and stress inducing" software for the switch (amongst other things), but I have a sneaking suspicion his new work environment of t-shirts, sandals and nerf guns had *some* influence.

Still, chalk this up as another prominent switch to Mac OS X by a developer fairly high on the Windows totem pole. One can only guess as to how desirable Mac OS X Leopard will be, once Mr. J and company lay all their cards on the table at Macworld 9 days from now.

[via MacDailyNews]

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Gandhi

Welcome to the Mac world! I switched 3 months ago myself, and I certainly hope Apple does not follow Microsoft's footsteps as it moves on to bigger and better things.

December 31 2006 at 9:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

David Chartier

#1: Thanks for the mention Leonard, though I have no idea what Mr. Eran is talking about. I didn't read the entire article, but it looks like he's discussion Greenpeace stuff; I've never criticized anything he's written about Greenpeace, in fact I've more or less stayed away from the matter as those guys annoy the daylights out of me. The last time Daniel and I crossed paths, it was over a unanimously criticized article he wrote comparing the total cost of ownership between Windows and Mac OS X.

Either way, it's NYE, and I am ultimately not that worried about Daniel Eran, though I wish him the best in his endeavors.

December 31 2006 at 8:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Pete Wright

Hey, thanks for the links.

I should point out though that I made the influencer lists because of the books I wrote, not the companies I worked for.

Keep up the good work - I'm an avid reader of TUAW.

Pete

December 31 2006 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris

Mr Chartier, did you know you were mentioned in an article released on roughlydrafted.com today?

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/Q4.06/05F99CE1-100E-4463-A73D-09EC8FB97D0E.html

December 31 2006 at 7:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply