On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:34:53 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>One could conveniently blame the competence of the programmers and their
>level of familiarity with the code (many have left) [1], but I suspect that
>the code just isn't sufficiently modular. Even Microsoft's mouthpiece
>(Funkenbusch) admitted that it's true. Why else would Vista require 60% of
>its existing codebase to have the rewrite brush applied [2]?
>
I believe this is Microsoft's biggest problem and is compounded by a
high rate of programmer turnover. It may be their undoing.
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