SoftRatty: Rewrite Windows

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Rewrite Windows - Yes or No?

2008-06-30 19:15:36 by Teching It Easy: Windows Vista in MS Windows Vista Compatible Software

From CNET

An interesting article posted by News.com from New York Times, suggest that best way to resolve all of Microsoft Windows 'problems', is to rewrite the software from scratch.

Quote:

"The best solution to the multiple woes of Windows is starting over. Completely. Now.

Vista is the equivalent, at a minimum, of Windows version 12--preceded by 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, NT, 95, NT 4.0, 98, 2000, ME, and XP. After 6 years of development, the longest interval between versions in the previous 22-year history of Windows, and long enough to permit Apple to bring out three new versions of Mac OS X, Vista was introduced to consumers in January 2007."

Read the entire article here

My Take:

I am sorry, but there is a lot of misinformation and bias in this article. Mac OS X's heritage upon which it is built is even older than NT itself. Development on NT started in late '89 when Microsoft hired Dave Cutler, so NT is probably one of the youngest Microkernels next to Linux which was developed around '91 by Torvald. There is also confusion between the code bases, Windows NT is completely different from Windows 9x/3x/1x. The only similarities

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