[Colonol Dekker]

Dare i say, bumb mapping and procedural texures on......................... NOTEPAD !!!?!?!

[Descenterace]

You think you're being cynical, but it's only a matter of time before they actually do that.

[neoterran]

WOW!!! I cant wait for Open GL minesweeper with 3d box action, WooT!

What part of "Direct" and "X" did you not hear ? 

[Colonol Dekker]

It'll happen, someone will release an unofficial fix.
 
Dont shatter my hopes and dreams

[Fury]

A rather interesting article to read.

[Colonol Dekker]

1000 lines a year,.............

[aldo_14]

That's redolent of bad practice, 1000.  I'd also suggest a 6th (less than) of other companies output per-programmer is an order of magnitude worse.  Particularly if other companies are engaged in multiple stop-start projects, with various planning stages that naturally restrict coding, rather than an ongoing development (code writing) program.  i.e. I don't write much code at present, but I'm working on stuff still in prototypical stages (plus, i'm a newbie )

[WMCoolmon]

A rather interesting article to read.

When bold is used that much, I just stop caring and start getting annoyed.

[Nuke]

so how hard is it to troubleshoot vista? is it like 98 which was hella easy, or is it more like xp or 2000 where you got more stuff to sort through. also hows the driver management, has it improved any? id rather a system where you just brows for the driver file, rather than try to find it automatically through the wizzard like in previous versions. that always annoyed me. if vista has wizzards, i refuse to buy it.

[Mars]

When bold is used that much, I just stop caring and start getting annoyed.

I know, I mean seriously, why the hell did they do that?

Were the other releases of Windows this... contraversial... I mean, did people talk about it as much as people talk about vista?

[WMCoolmon]

Not that I know of.

But then, this release of Windows is entering into a market where - for the first time - another OS is really mainstream knowledge and is considered an acceptable, if not better, alternative. That being OS X.

Now that Microsoft can't just use the "Things could be worse" excuse, the stakes have been raised and the standards as well.

[aldo_14]

Just a shame OS X runs on overpriced plastic tat.

[IPAndrews]

Is Windows pay-per-load yet?

[Colonol Dekker]

The way Gates ois going in ten years itll be pay per click....

[IPAndrews]

Or even worse... pay-per-crash.

[Descenterace]

Lines of code per week is a poor metric for judging performance.

[Nuke]

i wonder how much of windows vista is actually new code.

[Fineus]

Well I wouldn't blame them if they adopted a partial "if it isn't broken, don't fix it" attitude. For instance... there's only so much code you can apply to Windows calculator before it does its job.. end of story.

However they really shouldn't carry over the core code IMO because it's going to get bulky, cluttered and not do the job properly for a new OS. They could do that with NT to XP - but not here.

[Nuke]

the only real reason to upgrade an os is because you need code that can take advantage of newer hardware technology. running an old os on a new computer is just a major performance hit. so that part they had best do from scratch.

[Fury]

They could do that with NT to XP - but not here.

Little correction. Windows 2000 is NT5 and a lot of code was rewritten between NT4 and NT5. XP on the other hand is "just" NT5.1. However, it would seem like a lot more code is being rewritten for Vista than when W2k was developed.