An article by Joel, a former Microsoft employee, pointed out that the shutdown menu in Vista alone has seven options, which is really against the trend. Another ex-Microsoft employee, Moishe Lettvin, frankly admitted that he spent a year designing this menu, using 200 lines of code. He also complained bitterly, saying that this feature involved the Windows Shell team, the Windows Kernel team, and the Windows Mobile PC User Experience team where he worked, with about eight people on each team:
- 1 program manager
- 1 developer
- 1 developer lead
- 2 testers
- 1 test lead
- 1 UI designer
- 1 user experience expert
Additionally, each team of eight people had six layers of management above them, and there was one shared manager overseeing all the teams. In total, 43 people were involved with the shutdown menu feature! The inevitable conflicts and back-and-forth between these groups caused the integration cycle to stretch into several months.