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Microsoft Windows Officially Broken


Publication:	Smart Office News	Date:	Oct 04 2005
Reporter:	David Richards

Allchin is co-head of the Platform Products and Services Division. "It's not going to work," he told Gates in the chairman's office mid-2004, the paper reports. "[Longhorn] is so complex its writers will never be able to make it run properly. "The reason: Microsoft engineers were building it just as they had always built software. Thousands of programmers each produced their own piece of computer code, to be stitched together into one sprawling program.But Longhorn/Vista was too complex: Microsoft needed to begin again, Allchin told Gates.Allchin's warning recognised a growing threat from Google, Apple Computer, makers of Linux and corporate buyers - the latter horrified about security problems. Allchin and a small team demanded a revolution in how Microsoft works.

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Subject	Posted by	Date
If this is true...	pinniped	4 Oct, 06:55
A very key thing at the end of the article	SmyTTor	4 Oct, 07:51
Hmm..	Cutter892	4 Oct, 10:04
Re: Hmm..	bmustiata	4 Oct, 14:08
Re: Hmm..	Ptah	4 Oct, 19:06
Re: Hmm..	Olive Pan	5 Oct, 21:55
what a jerk	cadstarsucks	4 Oct, 12:31
Might be good for Linux...	SILVERPENGUIN	4 Oct, 21:11
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