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60% of Windows Vista needs a rewrite?
by Jordan Running Mar 24th 2006 at 10:45AM
Australia's Smarthouse magazine says a Microsoft insider has
confirmed that "up to 60% of the code in the [Windows Vista] is set to be rewritten." The article says
that Vista's entertainment and media center functionality is experiencing "many problems," and programmers
from the Xbox 360 have been pulled in to help fix them. Furthermore, Smarthouse says Microsoft has "initiated a
total restructure of the [Windows] division." I don't see any of this being confirmed anywhere, but it sure sounds
like a disaster. Will Vista be a leap for Windows like Windows 95, or is this the harbinger of another Windows ME?[Thanks, Ed!]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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bryan said 12:31PM on 3-24-2006
not a big surprise. I read somewhere that Vista will require at least 900 megs of ram to run, and 2 gigs of ram to play current PC video games. Vista games are suppose to be much more resource hungry. So there is definitely room for improvement with the code. I sure hope its not another ME. I want my DirectX 10.
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adsfaf said 6:31PM on 3-27-2006
yeah, i sure hope they are not another windows xp actually... what have these bums been doing for 5 years now, jesus, I mean we all expected a turd from microsoft but taking up 900 mb of memory, this is the pits man...
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