60% of Windows Vista needs a rewrite?

by Jordan Running Mar 24th 2006

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!]

Tags: delay, microsoft, vista, windows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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.

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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