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.
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| 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
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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