Windows Vista Code Scrapped
Microsoft is rewriting more than half of its upcoming operating system. Plus: Toshiba may have its own version of Micorsoft's Origami in the works.
Friday, March 24, 2006 by AtlanticCanadianScot | Discussion: Microsoft
By Owen Thomas, CNN Money;Business 2.0 Magazine online editor
March 24, 2006: 3:59 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However, blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if so, he writes, Microsoft (Research) would be pushing Vista back to 2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Richard Scoble checked into the story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows. Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista. One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system.
March 24, 2006: 3:59 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Smarthouse, an Australian trade publication, is reporting that more than half of Windows Vista will have to be rewritten. The problems are so severe, Smarthouse claims, that the newly reorganized Windows group is pulling in programmers from Microsoft's Xbox game-console division. However, blogger Alec Saunders doubts that the problems could be that bad -- if so, he writes, Microsoft (Research) would be pushing Vista back to 2009, not 2007. Microsoft's own blogger Richard Scoble checked into the story and got a denial from an executive at Microsoft's PR firm, who says he's not aware of any Xbox programmers working on Windows. Microsoft is now targeting next year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the launch event for the consumer version of Windows Vista. One reason for the delay, and for the possible involvement of Xbox programmers: Microsoft now plans to include functions from the Media Center edition of Windows, which can record TV shows and play photos, music, and videos on a TV, into its mainstream operating system.
Adamness
Reply #2 Friday, March 24, 2006 8:11 PM
Reply #2 Friday, March 24, 2006 8:11 PM
Yeah, I doubt that article is accurate. Microsoft was quick to denounce it, and basically said no part of it was accurate. Maybe they're just trying to cover their mistakes, but I'm thinking the article isn't true.
starkers
Reply #3 Friday, March 24, 2006 10:08 PM
I'd have to agree, if around 60% of the code had to be rewritten, it's most unlikely that MS would be able to release to consumers in early 2007. Maybe there is some code rewriting going on, but rather it's to improve Vista features than to correct what Smarthouse is claiming to be major errors on MS's part.
It seems MS's 'delay' announcement has all sorts of theories being proferred up as to why, and this comes across as just another imaginative example to explain it.
Reply #3 Friday, March 24, 2006 10:08 PM
| Yeah, I doubt that article is accurate. Microsoft was quick to denounce it, |
I'd have to agree, if around 60% of the code had to be rewritten, it's most unlikely that MS would be able to release to consumers in early 2007. Maybe there is some code rewriting going on, but rather it's to improve Vista features than to correct what Smarthouse is claiming to be major errors on MS's part.
It seems MS's 'delay' announcement has all sorts of theories being proferred up as to why, and this comes across as just another imaginative example to explain it.
thomassen
Reply #4 Friday, March 24, 2006 10:22 PM
Reply #4 Friday, March 24, 2006 10:22 PM
Yup! It's all rubbish! http://www.longhornblogs.com/robert/archive/2006/03/24/16039.aspx
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Reply #1 Friday, March 24, 2006 7:35 PM
Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Microsoft slammed an article by Australian technology publication Smart House on Friday, calling it "speculation." The retort came as a result of a story that cited sources within the company saying as much as 60 percent of Vista code needs to be rewritten.
The article claimed that the Redmond company had to transfer developers from the Xbox team to the Windows division in order to ensure the Vista makes it to a CES 2007 release. Much of the article centered on issues with the Media Center and multimedia functionality, and claimed Intel was assisting Microsoft in rushing out the new code.