Ted Roche wrote:
I have heard that Vista is on the order of FORTY FIVE MILLION LINES OF
CODE. A blog article last week claimed that Windows developers were
only able to hit about 5000 lines of code per year each. There can't
be a thousand of them. And they haven't been working at it for nine
years nonstop. So,...
Second data point: the JPEG exploit didn't just affect Windows 98, ME,
NT, 2000, XP and 2003 (which would have limited it to, what? 80
million desktops?).
They had to ship the first security patch for the first "Community
Preview" of Vista.
Conclusion: SOS. SS, DD.
I must have simply fallen for the marketing hype. I should know
better. ;-)
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Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
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