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Re: Paul Thurrott on Windows Vista RC1: "Welcome to the Dark Side"

On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:14:33 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> Vista was built in 6 months. September 2005 to March 2006, to be precise.
> Longhorn was binned as it was an unmanageable mess that led to Allchin's
> decision to retire.

That's a distortion of reality.  While it's true that vista development was
"rebooted", they did not throw all the code away and start from scratch,
they basically just restructured much of the code.

Allchin has been scheduled to retire for a long time now, more than 2
years, even before he announced the "reboot".

> Early today (or last night rather), the current manager
> of the Vista project defected to Amazon. And Gates is set to retire early,
> as well.

Valentine was always going to be reassigned anyways and replaced by Steven
Sinofsky.  Rather than work on something else, he decided to go somewhere
else.  This was announced quite some time ago.

For example:

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,2180,1997213,00.asp
http://www.techbuilder.org/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=183701788

So to pretend that this is some new event is just plain dishonest, but so
much your style that it's not suprising.

> Not everyone can afford a new machine. Open up your eyes. Have you strolled
> around your neighbourhood (or outside it) recently? People may be hooked on
> Windows 'habits'. But a poor man's back (think camel) can be broken with
> that single last straw. Vista is a last straw. The 200,000 Windows viruses
> that plague Windows (XP include) are quite heavy straws, when considered
> cohesively.

No, they're not.  Most people have antivirus and in fact, don't really get
exposed to many viruses.  Spyware is more of a problem, and IE7 addresses
that.

> Excessive nuisance leads to carelessness and negligence. It's like the boy
> who cried wolf. Security comes from below (kernel with proper multi-user
> architecture), not from above (AV software, prompts, firewall, etc.).

The "excessive nuisance" is no more than Mac and Ubuntu users put up with
every day from sudo.  It's just that Windows users aren't used to it, and
it's "annoying" to them.

It's true that earlier versions of Vista were excessively annoying in this
respect, but this has been fine tuned for release and doesn't have many
more cases where it's invoked than it would be with a Mac or Ubuntu.

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