[mdlug] Interesting information about Windows "7"

[Dave Arbogast]

Michael Rudas wrote:

>Raymond Ingles wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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>> 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.
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>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>
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>~~ Mikey
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If they threw out Uncle Bill's feeble attempt at copy protection - the 
registry file, they could actually start with a clean sheet stable and 
maybe secure OS. But, it would much easier to unbundle it so it will not 
happen.

-dave