http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/ Engadget Comments for Vista getting 60% code rewrite? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/They're rewriting it to get rid of all the sucky code from like Windows XP and earlier, because all they kept doing before was adding on and making a mess of one big code pile. Now they're trying to rewrite it and actually make it -better-.]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
Vista = OSX 10.2]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
Windows = worlds most succesful knock-off]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/What about DirectX?
hopefully that still makes it out before 2007]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
As a software engineer I can assure you that a code base the size of windows is not going to 60% re-written in a matter of 9 months. Code has to be locked down. Tested for several months and etc.

I gain access to beta builds of vista and the last time I checked it was more than 60% complete. I run it daily

Jeers to engaget for not thinking before featuring articles/news]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
If you have an older machine there is no value in running newer version of the OS on them. I have a variety of machines running a variety of OS's XP, 2000, Linux, Solaris.

If you have an older machine you're probably not using it for anything that needs upgrading anyway so stick with an OS as well as Apps that are better suited to the machine.]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
Sure, they will try and aggressively push rewrites to certain key features like the media center code, but 60% is just an outlandish number that couldn't ever possibly be backed up in 9 months times. You can't possibly QA 8 million lines of code in 4.5 months (say 4.5 to write, half to review). ]]>Mar 24th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
The 60% rewrite is probably more about streamlining and recompiling the code to work in the real world.]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
But you know, nowadays if there's no hype (positive or negative) there's no news.]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Did you know that Mac Donald's is introducing a gastronomic and dietetic menu by the same time? :-p

Hehe]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
I can't even find a reference to this 'Smarthome News'. Aside from the home automation company smarthome.com. The closest actually seems to be this german site...
http://smarthome.unibw-muenchen.de/en/news/

Very suspicious Engadget, can I get a source for this post?]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 1:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
Usually, they'd just release crap and inundate us with 'Service Releases'.]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
It doesn't help that Engadget pours on the anti-Microsoft posts and outlandish rumors so thick.

#3. "They are rewriting it to make it more mac-like. Apple scrapped the old OS and starte anew and now MSFT has realized in order to steal all of OSX's features they have to do the same."

You haven't actually used Vista, have you? I'd bet that you haven't even looked over some of the features without looking for similarities to OS X. Fact is, Vista looks, feels, and works NOTHING like OS X.

#4. "i mean Gates kinda stole the original MacOS and made windows off of it, so it wouldn't surprise me"

Get your facts straight and never watch Pirates of Silicon Valley again, mmkay?

#10. "Anyone else noticed that Microsoft has been nonresponsive when asked what minimum hardware requirements would be for Vista?"

Just FYI, I've been running the CTPs on both my main computer and my old Athlon XP 1800+ with 512MB of ram and an onboard GeForce 2. Aero isn't enabled, but Vista actually runs better than XP on that machine.

#16. "Usually, they'd just release crap and inundate us with 'Service Releases'."

Longhorn has already been reworked (quite significantly) once. Microsoft isn't as evil, close-minded, and backwards as everyone would like to make them out to seem.

Just for the record, I'm not on Microsoft's payroll and I do own a Mac.]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
More likely 60% of the code is going to be cleaned up after debugging has been done. File sizes will be reduced and extra non-code placeholders will be removed so that the files aren't too big for the cab files....Common procdure, nothing new.]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/]]>Mar 24th 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing/Platforms/R7G5G6U4]]>Mar 24th 2006 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/03/22/vista-microsoft-ballmer_cz_dl_0322microsoft.html]]>Mar 24th 2006 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
XP is good enough for now, the fact is I think most of us can afford to wait. Give us a product to be proud of MS, and please realize that ultra-DRM doesn't do anyone any good :)]]>Mar 24th 2006 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
Graham
http://www.losangelesweddingphoto.com]]>Mar 24th 2006 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Someone give me a good answer?

All this hype, energy, time, microsoft/engadget, we should be talking about and building better WIFI networks, and other things that would actually make a difference in life. ]]>Mar 24th 2006 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 24th 2006 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
This "magazine" has next to no credibility and should be treated with the sort of contempt usually reserved for the likes GWB.]]>Mar 24th 2006 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 25th 2006 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
The only part that didn't work well was the Media Center component although I was using Hauppauge's MCS drivers for their USB2 PVR - which fits post #20's comment about rewriting MCE.

As for Vista being MacOS X with some changes, sorry - I knew when I first saw Vista that we'd be hearing the Mac fans scream that - and there certainly are some specific cases where that criticism is legit (although one could argue that Sidebar is just as much a rip off of Konfabulator and Apple's Dashboard is...), when you get past the relatively trivial visual similarities, they're really quite different systems.]]>Mar 25th 2006 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Mar 25th 2006 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/
WAKE UP BILL. Your develoment team doesn't care about function - all they care about is making it look like a MAC! If I wanted something as functionless as a MAC I'd get one. I already know how to use a computer - I don't need it easier to use I need it more capable of doing basic things! When things that were functional in XP and weren't in 2003 that is an oversight. When they don't work in your next version, you are just covering your ears and saying "la la la la - I can't hear you..."]]>Mar 26th 2006 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/newsegaconsole
and sign the petition. Sega games are not the same unless
there on a SEGA console]]>Mar 27th 2006 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/24/vista-getting-60-code-rewrite/Jun 18th 2006 7:52AM