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Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?
"SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian
trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However, blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if so, he writes, Microsoft (Research) would be pushing Vista back to 2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Richard Scoble checked into the story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows. Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista. One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system." http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/tech...ce=yahoo_quote |
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Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?
On 24 Mar 2006 13:07:44 -0800, "YKhan" wrote:
"SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However, blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if so, he writes, Microsoft (Research) would be pushing Vista back to 2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Richard Scoble checked into the story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows. Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista. One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system." http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/tech...ce=yahoo_quote Looks like pure crap to me - throwing more headcount at the problem. 9 pregnant women will not produce the baby in 1 month. Much less likely Xbox programmers will produce working Windows code. It will take months just getting them up to speed. It's one thing writing Xbox games, and quite another developing the OS as complex as Windows that tries to be everything for everyone, deals with legacy apps, etc.etc.etc. Besides, with M$'s war chest it'd be more practical to hire extra programmers (if extra headcount is really needed, which I doubt) rather than pull them from other projects risking to screw up other deadlines. NNN |
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Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?
On a sunny day (24 Mar 2006 13:07:44 -0800) it happened "YKhan"
wrote in .com: "SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. It will all have to be re-written. But better not, just install Linux. Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system." http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/tech...ce=yahoo_quote Hell, I have been doing that on my Linux box since let's see: 2000 Even wrote much of the soft for that. What a sad case of failure MS has become. And BTW things like that should NOT be integrated into the OS, in my experience. Maybe the drivers.... More bloat to come from the richest man in the world. There is a good article about the MS limitations, and a future prediction [why] it will get worse on nytimes.com. Old saying : Those who criticise Unix are destined to reinvent it. Yes I am talking about the power of pipes. No not crack pipes, Unix pipes. |
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Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?
In a few years, when virtualization features are more ubiquitous in the
chips, they should be able to create an OS that breaks all compatibility but can run a compatible layer underneath it, virtualized. Yousuf Khan |
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Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:30:16 -0800, YKhan wrote:
In a few years, Oh, that makes me feel *so* good! when virtualization features are more ubiquitous Come on! Even x86 has its protection rings, which M$ has decided aren't worth the bother. These would protect the user if M$ wanted. Do you really thin M$ cares? Do you really think M$ is going to allow Windows to be virtualized to protect the user? ...and run as a client to Linux, perhaps? Dream on! Windows will simply run in hypervisor mode, as does OSX. in the chips, they should be able to create an OS that breaks all compatibility but can run a compatible layer underneath it, virtualized. Good idea (and it's been done for forty years), but do you *really* think M$ has any intention of giving up this kind of power? -- Keith |
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