Comparing Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged hero with Microsoft, and tying both together into a chapter about the issues associated with getting software out the door is no easy task, but the folks over at the Mini-Microsoft blog give it a whirl in a post about, among other things, Microsoft brain-drain, what the departure of Lenn Pryor, Microsoft’s director of platform evangelism means, and the Redmond Giant’s ongoing problems with shipping software. Former Hailstorm architect Mark Lucovsky addressed the downsides of Microsoft’s approach to shipping software in a post of his own. If you want an answer to the question ‘Who is John Galt?’ you won’t find it at Mini-Microsoft. Instead, you’ll just have to read Atlas Shrugged. Software Development