__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 18:09 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Sorry to be feeding Dvorak (he trolls again)...
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>>| Microsoft needs to back up and re-fork its OS development from Windows
>>| 2000 Professional or even Windows NT 4.0. Then it needs to find a "pope"
>>| who can understand the code base. Let me explain.
>>|
>>| First, the coders seem to assume that Windows 2000 Professional is the
>>| best version of the system ever...
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Scrapping code and backtracking is very difficult to accept, but it's
>>| the only way. In fact, the minute that Vista started falling apart,
>>| Microsoft should have pulled the plug on development and gone back to
>>| square one, at the Windows 2000?XP schism.
>> `----
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1993524,00.asp
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>> What he doesn't realise is that Longhorn was scraped in September 2005 and
>> the codebase from Server 2003 (XP) was reverted to.
>>
>>
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB112743680328349448,00.html?mod=todays_us_page_one
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>>| The news got even worse: Longhorn was irredeemable because
>>| Microsoft engineers were building it just as they had always built
>>| software. Throughout its history, Microsoft had let thousands of
>>| programmers each produce their own piece of computer code, then
>>| stitched it together into one sprawling program. Now, Mr. Allchin
>>| argued, the jig was up. Microsoft needed to start over.
>> `----
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> As you say - they've already done that - it still didn't work. Vista,
> if it's /ever/ launched, is going to be a service-pack for NT5. As also
> noted by Microsoft's own senior managers, their development methods are
> a mess.
You mean Allchin /et al/? And those who demanded a 60% code rewrite -- that
which would make it modular and introduce new holes in freshly-made code?
It's like trying to educate a 20 year-old savage, starting with nuclear
physics rather than begin with the basic. Maturity does not emerge
overnight. Even Apple had to flush.
Allchin, by the way, announced that he would retire when Vista hits the
shelves. I suspect he might get the pleasure of playing Duke Nuken Forever
(oh! the saga) before he retires...
Best wishes,
Roy
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