Brian Krebs, who writes the useful WaPo blog "Security Fix," is not one of those tech writers who feels compelled to play Cheney to Microsoft's Bush, defending bad strategy and worse results to the point of lunacy. He doesn't usually take much of a stance, for or against, the worthiness of Microsoft-ware, preferring instead merely to report the latest news about vulnerabilities and how to address them.
But he had a moment today that made my eyebrows and jaws travel in opposite directions:
Given that Microsoft did not have time to do a wholesale re-write of Windows with Vista …
In fairness, he may have been paraphrasing someone else, as the above appeared in the middle of a quotation. But if that's the case, Krebs at least deserves a rap on the knuckles for parroting without comment.
Microsoft had five years, near-infinite cash reserves, and who knows how many thousands of developers on the Longhorn Vista project. They had time to rewrite it twice.
Update
2007-04-17 19:11 EDT
Sorry if your RSS reader pinged you. Just a typo fix this time.
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There's an interesting post on one of the internal Microsoft blogs that analyzes the Vista schedule slippage. It was posted on 14 June 2006, when the then-planned ship date of August 2006 was looming.
Even more interestingly, this post is also the most recent post on that blog, which you can verify by clicking that blog's "Home" link.
Enter your favorite conspiracy theory below.
If I could only sum up briefly what is wrong with each and every release of Microsoft software but I don't have the endless time that Microsoft had to botch yet another operating system. Why can Apple roll out timely releases that actually run smoothly from day one and have little if any bugs but MS seems to release something worse in terms of stability and security each time?
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