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Windows Is So Slow, but Why? - New York Times
by Decius at 10:10 am EST, Mar 27, 2006 |
In an internal memo last October, Ray Ozzie, chief technical officer, who joined Microsoft last year, wrote, "Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
The trouble with Microsoft. |
Windows Is So Slow, but Why? - New York Times
by bucy at 7:31 pm EST, Mar 27, 2006 |
As a result, each new version of Windows carries the baggage of its past. As Windows has grown, the technical challenge has become increasingly daunting. Several thousand engineers have labored to build and test Windows Vista, a sprawling, complex software construction project with 50 million lines of code, or more than 40 percent larger than Windows XP.
Backward compatibility is the albatross that is strangling Windows. |
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