OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Adam S on Sun 29th Jun 2008 16:10 UTC

"Microsoft Windows has put on a lot of weight over the years" writs Randall Stross in a recent New York Times blog entry on Windows' legacy code. "Beginning as a thin veneer for older software code," he continues, "it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs, fixing the fixes that never worked properly, all while maintaining compatibility with older software and hardware -- is there anything Windows doesn't try to do?" Does Microsoft have the business savvy or guts to rewrite Windows?

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RE[3]: No

by google_ninja on Mon 30th Jun 2008 15:19 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: No"

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(And no, the .NET API does not qualify since it basically calls back to Win32 to begin with.)

It doesn't have to (as the mono guys have proven).

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