MB Software Solutions wrote:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000245.html
An older article, but still a goodie, imo.
From the article, particularly of note since we were talking about
Vista and code re-use:
"Partially, this is because they made the suicidal mistake of throwing
out all their code and starting over: the same mistake that doomed
Ashton-Tate, Lotus, and Apple's MacOS to the recycle-bins of software
history."
So perhaps M$ was using this as a reason why they didn't start from
scratch? (I guess for an OS it just would take too long to develop from
scratch, as Ted noted.)
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Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
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