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[News] Linux Project Structurally Manageable (Unlike Windows)

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Torvalds to kernel hopefuls: Think 'trivial'

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| Mark Taylor, president of the Open Source Consortium, told ZDNet.co.uk on 
| Friday that, in general, enterprise-class open-source projects are designed 
| to scale appropriately.  
| 
| "The whole process scales very well," said Taylor. "Normally the people you 
| find at the core (of open-source projects) are professional software 
| engineers; these guys know how to run software projects."  
| 
| Torvalds' and Taylor's comments follow the recent publication of a guide to 
| Linux kernel development by the Linux Foundation, which aims to prevent 
| developers becoming frustrated with the process.   
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10018995-92.html

64-bit Application Thread Creation Performance

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| A recent discussion on the Linux Kernel mailing list noted that threaded 
| 64-bit applications suffer a drastic slowdown in pthread_create performance 
| when stack utilization goes above 4GB. Ingo Molnar offered an explanation of 
| the problem, "unfortunately MAP_32BIT use in 64-bit apps for stacks was 
| apparently created without foresight about what would happen in the MM when 
| thread stacks exhaust 4GB. The problem is that MAP_32BIT is used both as a 
| performance hack for 64-bit apps and as an ABI compat mechanism for 32-bit 
| apps. So we cannot just start disregarding MAP_32BIT in the kernel - we'd 
| break 32-bit compat apps and/or compat 32-bit libraries." The original report 
| noted that once the shared stack goes above 4GB in size, thread creation can 
| take as long as 10 milliseconds, a slowdown described as "quite 
| unacceptable".           
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/64-bit_Application_Thread_Creation_Performance

Windows development is chaos at the moment. Key programmers left, the
management is shuffled endlessly, "development collapse" and "reboot" are
reported, and 7 can't get off the ground (it'll be VistaII). Details below.


Recent:

Windows exec Poole leaving Microsoft (Update)

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| Microsoft senior vice president Will Poole, a longtime Windows executive, is 
| retiring from the company, according to a report by ZDNet blogger Mary Jo 
| Foley this afternoon. No confirmation from Microsoft yet.  
| 
| Poole would be the latest executive to leave the company since Windows 
| Vista's launch. Others include Rob Short and Michael Sievert.  
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/136482.asp?source=rss


Microsoft's Vista Blogger Quits As Redmond Exodus Builds

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| White did not provide a reason for his decision. To be sure, his position 
| could not have been an easy one. White's posts often elicited hundreds of 
| responses from Vista users complaining about the operating system's numerous 
| glitches and quirks.   
| 
| His departure also raises questions about Microsoft's ability to retain 
| talent in the Web 2.0 world.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Earlier this year, Microsoft Business Division president Jeff Raikes said he 
| would retire in September, to be replaced by former Juniper Networks chief 
| operating officer Stephen Elop.  
| 
| Microsoft's merger and acquisitions chief Bruce Jaffe stepped down at the end 
| of February. 
| 
| To boot, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will give up full-time duties at the 
| company in July. 
| 
| The departures highlight one of Microsoft's biggest challenges as a mature 
| company: attracting and retaining Silicon Valley's top talent. In its early 
| days, Microsoft could entice recruits with an entrepreneurial environment and 
| stock options that eventually turned secretaries into millionaires.    
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001276&subSection=All+Stories


Vista marketing chief to bid Microsoft adieu

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| Michael Sievert, Corporate Vice President for Windows Product Marketing, is 
| moving on, according to multiple sources of mine. 
| 
| It’s hard to make the case that Sievert, who was responsible for the 
| worldwide introduction of Windows Vista, isn’t being pushed for the 
| less-than-enthusiastic public perception of Microsoft’s latest version of 
| Windows. Even though Microsoft has moved 100-million-plus copies of Vista, 
| many consumers and businesses still consider the new release buggy, sluggish 
| and incompatible with existing software and drivers.     
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1158


Related:

Veteran Windows architect resigns from Microsoft

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| On the heels of a week of news of a number of Microsoft executive departures 
| and reshufflings, another has come to light. Rob Short, Corporate Vice 
| President for Windows Core, has resigned from the company.  
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1110


More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing 

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| "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista
| operating system is set to be rewritten..."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516


Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report 

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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
| 
| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37125


MS Insider: The Office Crew Isn't Smart Enough to Supplant Real Windows
Developers

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| "With Alchin retiring, MarkL and MarkZ, two of the most talented
| architects in MS already having left, the picture gets really
| ugly for the Windows division," my friend claimed, and the BV's
| core team members, Ian McDonald, Jack Mayo, Todd Wanke, Clyde
| Rodriguez and others are starting to connect the dots.
| 
| [...]
| 
| He concluded ominously. "A trainwreck of biblical proportions looms.
| Pick a good seat on the sidelines, trainwrecks this large take
| awhile to complete. Vista may be the last MS OS for some time to
| come, especially if Cutler decides to play hardball."
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http://www.emailbattles.com/2006/09/11/ms-insider-the-office-crew-isnt-smart-enough-to-supplant-real-windows-developers/
http://tinyurl.com/35eqrt
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