Filed under: Windows, Microsoft
No rewrite for Windows Vista
by Jordan Running Mar 24th 2006
Following up on our report
earlier today of rumors that 60% of Windows Vista's code would be rewritten before its release, Microsoft uber-blogger
Robert Scoble says it's
"absolutely not true," and the rumors that developers from the Xbox 360 team had been brought in to fix
Vista's Media Center functionality are equally untrue. There's room for a little doubt, here—Scoble's source is
Microsoft's PR department, after all—but I'm inclined to believe him and save my Vista worries for another
day.[Via Engadget]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
