Re: Half of Windows Vista code needs to be scrapped?

On 24 Mar 2006 13:07:44 -0800, "YKhan" <yjkhan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian
trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista
will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse
claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in
programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However,
blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if
so, he writes, Microsoft (Research) would be pushing Vista back to
2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Richard Scoble checked into the
story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who
says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows.
Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las
Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista.
One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox
programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media
Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos,
music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system."
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/technology/business2_browser0324/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

Looks like pure crap to me - throwing more headcount at the problem.
9 pregnant women will not produce the baby in 1 month. Much less
likely Xbox programmers will produce working Windows code. It will
take months just getting them up to speed. It's one thing writing
Xbox games, and quite another developing the OS as complex as Windows
that tries to be everything for everyone, deals with legacy apps,
etc.etc.etc. Besides, with M$'s war chest it'd be more practical to
hire extra programmers (if extra headcount is really needed, which I
doubt) rather than pull them from other projects risking to screw up
other deadlines.

NNN

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