I’m actually surprised no one else has posted this yet. Not sure how accurate the 60% is but interesting nonetheless. The commects on slashdot always make me laugh!
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While I am no lover of the Microsoft hegemony, I find it hard to believe that 60% of the Vista code is being rewritten and released by January. Unless of course they mean January of ’09.
60% of the work they have spent the last 4 years on? Maybe they should stop, think about what they are doing, and just rewrite the whole OS from scratch. Remove some of the legacy code, (who is using 16 bit software still?), and optimize thier code to run on current machines instead of making it viable for machines from 2.5 – 3 years from now.
Apple definately has the code advantage in that they don’t have to support so much hardware, but, maybe Microsoft should stop trying to bundle so many hardware drivers natively in the system, and let the hardware developers write the code to make it work. Case in point, when I was running linux and Win2k on my PC, my gigabit network card ran just fine. In WinXP, the drivers are “included in the OS”, so no manufacturer made drivers. Problem is, the WinXP drivers just don’t work.
If Microsoft were rewritting the code to the base level of the OS, and letting the hardware manufacturer write the driver, (like they did in Win2K), then maybe everyone would have a better experience.