Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped

anzev writes "A team manager for Windows for 5 years has decided to write a blog-essay about what caused Windows Vista project to miss the due date. Philip tells us in the blog, that Windows developers are writing an average of 5000 lines of code (which is *only* 1200 lines less than the national average of 6200 lines of code per year). He addresses issues like the Vista code being too complicated, the processes the developers have to follow too complex and a lot more. All in all it gives a nice insight into why Vista will be late, from a different perspective. Oh, and Slashdot gets mentioned too ;-)."

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Re:SLOC: Vista vs. Linux

[plover]

Of course at that level it's all shades of grey anyway.

But where else do you draw the lines? Any open-source project can drag in millions of lines of code by reference, authored by thousands of people, some of whom are unknown (and possibly some of which may have been plagiarized or be in some other violation of Intellectual Property rights.) But Microsoft really has to account for the provenance of each line of code -- either they have to show who authored it in-house, or they have to come up with a receipt for the purchase of the rights to that code.

At least they do if they want to keep battling Linux over IP issues. The one thing they can't do is draw code from the GPL world, anyway, which leaves them only two other options -- buy it or write it.