Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Windows Media Center Reason for 60% Rewrite of Windows Vista...Not!
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
"I've been reading what Robert, Sean, Loren and the XBox team have already said about the now infamous '60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten' article by David Richards. For the record, this 'story' is absolute poppycock. The only reason I'm blogging this is because I got word of mouth some of our MVPs didn't know what to think -- and I want all of them and our current / future customers to be 100% confident we are on track to deliver a safe, secure and stable operating system with cool features (like Windows Media Center, Windows Media Player, Windows Sidebar, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera) with Windows Vista."
While I have to believe what Charlie Owen says about Vista's development progress (and I'm inclined to, given the fact that a 60% "rewrite" would be a monumental task at this point), I just have to point out something in his article here. Eight hours until you need to reboot the system? WHAT? Are you kidding me? Last time I checked, if you have to reboot every 8 hours, that indicates a serious problem! I leave my XP machine running for days and weeks on end without a reboot, and about the only thing I have to restart from time to time is Avant Browser. I hope they resolve that problem well before the release, because otherwise I'll be sticking with XP. Eight hours. Sheesh. Other than that it sounds great. :lol:
While I have to believe what Charlie Owen says about Vista's development progress (and I'm inclined to, given the fact that a 60% "rewrite" would be a monumental task at this point), I just have to point out something in his article here. Eight hours until you need to reboot the system? WHAT? Are you kidding me? Last time I checked, if you have to reboot every 8 hours, that indicates a serious problem! I leave my XP machine running for days and weeks on end without a reboot, and about the only thing I have to restart from time to time is Avant Browser. I hope they resolve that problem well before the release, because otherwise I'll be sticking with XP. Eight hours. Sheesh. Other than that it sounds great. :lol:
