"How many Microsofties does it take to implement the OFF menu?"

An interesting read: Joel Spolsky argues that too many choices lead to user unhappiness and looks at the Windows Vista "OFF" feature as an example. In a response on his own blog, former Microsoft programmer (now Google employee) Moishe Lettvin who worked on exactly that part of Vista for a year describes how the development process inside Microsoft worked for his group.

After reading this, you can be pretty sure that our KDE's development process as we know it would still compare as very lean and highly efficient -- even if we had 5 threads like this every week...