60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten

Alien54 writes "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems, according to this report. In an effort to meet a deadline of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. Much more at the link."

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Re:Please Don't Interpret this Incorrectly

[yogkarma]

This is the time when Microsoft should make Visa an Open Source, lets see who come first OpenSource Vista or MS-Vista. Long Live Logic.

Re:Please Don't Interpret this Incorrectly

[kinkos]

I was laughing my ass off by the end of your comment.  Why?  Because i work at a Helpdesk in a primarily (90%) windows shop, and i use linux 100% of the time to do my job.

Remote Desktop to interface with the Active Directory server.
Firefox to access our web-based ticketing system.
Firefox to access the perl scripts polling our networking equipment.
Thunderbird to connect to our IMAP server for email.

Sure, i could use windows to complete these tasks, but the point is that i do _not_ require a windows partition to provide Windows desktop support.

Oh, and Firefox works with all three of my banking websites.

Highly Successful?

[ITGrunt]

Highly Successful Xbox team? LOL the Hindenburg Airship was highly successful too.