Re:Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'
by Ocho-Bits on Saturday October 23, 2010 @04:18PM
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Windows usually has a three year cicle. Vista stopped this mostly because of the development hell that it was.
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Re:Windows 8 will be Microsoft's 'riskiest product bet'
by zsouthboy on Saturday October 23, 2010 @09:35PM
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My favorite part is where they threw it all out, reset to 2003 codebase, and started from scratch basically, 18ish months before release.[1]
So from a technical standpoint, Vista took longer [5 years] and had less development time [under 2 years] actually make it into the product. (Yes, code they already had they could and did reincorporate into the final product, but still, wow.)
[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/16/481625.as...
This post is full of snark by the way, but it is useful to know what went wrong with Vista. (TL;DR: Management of very large software development is _hard_)