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More crazy news of Vista...

Doesn't sound like fun for MS, but I can't help but wonder if the 60% number is journalistic exaggeration to the extreme. Oh well, Vista can wait - XP is working just fine for me right now.
 
At the centre of the problem appears to be the Media Centre code which will not be optional. Apparently they cannot get it to work properly in its current format and will have to make a lot of changes to the code to jack it in.
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Could this have something to do with DRM?

I like the use of the phrase "jack it in"... coincides with the popular spaghetti code theory that has always plagued microsoft.
 
Originally posted by: spyordie007
Right, we all know how good the information off the Inquirer is :roll:

That's probably one of the worst news sites.
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Seriously.

Why do people keep believing crap from there?

BTW: "Steven Sinofsky has been promoted to senior vice president of the Windows and Windows Live Group" is a complete crock of ******. Took 5 seconds to check this "fact".
 
There's no way that's true, AFAIK MS is still on track to release Vista this year to businesses and to regular consumers early next year.

Someone internally probably mentioned a desire to rewrite a lot of the system in managed code and that got interpreted as "OMG Vista needs to be rewritten from scratch!".
 
The story is not true. Scoble said publicly a little while ago that Microsoft is trying to get a retraction from the moron who wrote that drivel. Not that it will matter at this point, of course.

I should've been a 'journalist' I would have a lot of fun spouting off whatever random thought pops into my head without having to worry about being held to any sort of standard of integrity.
 
...spouting off whatever random thought pops into my head without having to worry about being held to any sort of standard of integrity.
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If that's the definition of a "journalist" than AT OT is full of them 😛
 
Scoble said publicly a little while ago that Microsoft is trying to get a retraction from the moron who wrote that drivel.
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So, they have to re-write 55% vs 60%

What happened?...new version of Outlook Express that requires 150meg of disk space and require 256meg on your video card break DRM or something?

{smirk}

By the first three service packs required to make this thing run correctly the entire OS will be 60% replaced anyways, so what's the difference?
 
OpenSuse 10.0, she is alive and kicking on my PC. WinXP is alive and kicking on my other PC.
I dont see no Vista anywhere.
I think I buy a new graphics card instead of saving the $400 for Vista. Got all the supersearch, graphics effects, etc I need with what I got.
 
I wouldn't get so down on 'the inquirer'. It's obvious what it is.. it's just a tech news related tabloid. They publish rumors and opinion peices and weird crap like this article. It's ment for more entertainment then actual serious news.

But this article is obvious BS.
 
Originally posted by: rdubbz420
I hope its true. better to fix it now instead of having 4 service packs later.
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Generally.. as in 98% of the time.. rewriting software generally lands you a product that is worse then what you started off with.

This is because your going to end up replacing a familar, proven, and debugged code base with a replacement program that is not familar, unproven, and full of new bugs (any code has bugs as sure as death and taxes) as well as probably not matching the old one for features.

The only time that you'd want to actually rewrite something is when you've learned so much new stuff that old design choices for your program are so bad that it makes sense to simply get rid of it because working with the old code will slow you down worse then actually starting from scratch again...

That has already happenned with Windows once already. When Microsoft took what they learned from Dos/Win9x stuff as well as their Unix background and wrote NT.

But nobody, even Microsoft, can afford to write new operating systems anymore. What you have is what you are stuck with.

In fact rewriting even 60% of the current Window NT/2000/XP code base is probably such a bad idea that it would be VERY fatal to Microsoft. It would probably put them out of business and Vista would be a total hunk of crap. It would probably take another 3 years of programming and testing to get a new code base up to the same polish as XP/2003 stuff is.

 
I hope its true. better to fix it now instead of having 4 service packs later.
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No it's not, incremental fixes are much easier to test and keep track of. A complete rewrite would introduce more bugs than it fixed.
 
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