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 ;-)."

Comments

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[Sathias]

Obviously the other thing that is too complex is the whole to/too/two thing ;)

Re:Give Vista Developers A Break

[plover]

You project management plan looks great in Microsoft Project. Then you print it out and re-wallpaper the offices only to have the developers sift through it and go, "What the fsck?"

Actually, Windows developers go "What the CHKDSK.EXE?"

Re:SLOC: Vista vs. Linux

[geordie_loz]

I didn't think that Leonard Nimoy was "late", wikipedia and imdb make no mention of it.

Has this just happened, or are you personally aquainted with said gentleman and simply lamenting his constant tardiness?