[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"

[Michael Rudas]

Raymond Ingles wrote:
>> From: Robert Adkins
>> However, it looks like MS is appearing to be playing OS market "Damage
>> Control" caused by their currently stagnating Windows ME2^H^H^H^Vista OS.

> They won't make that ship date. No chance, their whole development
> methodology is insufficient to manage the codebase they have.
> And Vista is too fundamentally broken by design - to come up with
> something that would help their marketing they'd have to start from
> scratch and what they produced would look a whole lot like XP.

>  They have a *lot* of resources to throw at problems, don't get me wrong, but
> that kind of schedule is impossible even for them. Exponential complexity
> growth can swamp any finite amount of resources. Microsoft doesn't modularize
> well because they *want* a monolithic OS that can't be unbundled, but that
> makes coding it increasingly hairy.

Yup.  If throwing more people and resources at a programming project
carried the day, WinVista would have been the best OS EVER!!!!
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month>

~~ Mikey