Inside The Development of Windows NT

mrpuffypants writes "Winsupersite has a 3 part series this month about the history and development of Windows NT all the way up through Windows Server 2003. The author goes fairly in-depth describing how Windows is developed, managed, and how all 50 million+ lines are compiled daily. Part One covers the history of NT from its early days at Microsoft and Part Two discusses how the deployment of the forthcoming server version of Windows is coordinated daily." *shiver*

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Finally...

[Junior J. Junior III]

We'll be able to settle once and for all whether the suck was designed in, or if it was an incidental byproduct of lack of design.

yeah, right.

[fanatic]

Thompson elaborated... "Our core architecture is so solid, that we were able to take NT from 386-25's in 1990 to today's embedded devices, 64-way, 64-bit multiprocessor machines, and $1000 scale-out server blades."

Write once, blue-screen anywhere.

Re:50 million+ lines

[vb.warrior]

Well I hope I never use a program coded by you mr fuck-nuts cause the first strcmp will cause it to break.. go back to html and masturbating to porn in your parents bedroom

50 million daily?!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, that's a lot better than Linux development which is a bunch of filthy hippies who smoke dope and eat week-old pizza while sitting on the sofa in their own filth. Get a job you stinking peices of shit, quit leeching off of society looking to me for handouts all the time. This isn't a free ride, software isn't free, people BUY and SELL things that's what makes this country what it is. Go hit the streets and look for a job once you get a marketable skill - here's a clue: it isn't Linux. People use Windows not some filthy OS that every slimeball with a modem has had their disgusting fingers in. Linux is the ultimate binary whore, every keeps sticking their diseased pecker in her, and the condom has been designed by and USED by everyone. Yup, I'm going to place the reliance of MY company on that awfull shit. Hit the streets and find a job, which should be easy for you because the streets are probably where you live working the corner with a cup in your hand "Feed me! Free software Freee lunch! I'm a lazy drop of piss who won't pay for anything.!" You make me sick with your open source and tree fucking and dog kissing. Kiss my ass. Add something to life, stop coasting through it you stupid cunts.

More from Bill Gates - 2/16/03

[teamhasnoi]

"In the next release of Windows, currently called 'Longhorn', we will require the user to have no less than two 'always on' Broadband connections. These 'pipes' if you will, will be connected directly to our servers in Redmond."

"This will be necessary in order to ensure Windows is properly licensed, and that no unlicenced behavior is taking place on our machines. We will also leverage this connection to bring the user the latest content from Hollywood, and the Music industry. All this will be registered with Microsoft, insuring that the content you license from us is always up-to-date, and revisable. And properly licensed to you for that day or minute. The time period is up to the user! Consumers demand flexabillity!"

"It's true that our new version of Windows will only run on PCs with no keyboard or mouse. We think that removing user input will make our machines safe from unlicensed content, and inappropriate user behavior such as running programs or creating unlicensed content. When users of our machines see the wide variety of properly licensed content available to them, we think they'll agree that user input is dangerous and unnecessary."

"As Microsoft moves into other license delivery systems, you will be seeing more and more properly licensed content, and have less opportunities for dangerous 'input'! That's a great thing!"

"Don't you think?"

Re:Not Really.

[Anonymous Coward]

Haha

it's tux, troll.

[Erris]

Waddle does not have a red eye. At least not on the TY site and he was discontinued in 98. You must have been paid to make that silly remark, that or very stupid.

It's a room full of computer geeks, of course the penguin means linux! The softies probably stick pins in him or some other voodoo that has about as much chance of making Linux go away as they have of overcoming their marketroid bosses. Freedom works, closed source blows.

Re:NT compile script (OT clarification)

[slaker]

OK. But I'm taking full credit for "cumsnort" and "assweasel".

I made those two up when some cumsnorting assweasel almost rearended me on 80-94...