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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (11642)	3/26/2006 8:54:44 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) of 19790

Great read on msft. Its worth reading the entire article but the key paragraph imho is this. (I find it amazing that they figured out they couldn't manage Vista until summer 2004- which means Vista as DOA before the goog ipo even as everyone was afraid msft would squash GOOG in fall,04) Vista was also held up because the project was restarted in the summer of 2004. By then, it became clear to Mr. Allchin and others inside Microsoft that the way they were trying to build the new version of Windows, then called Longhorn, would not work. Two years' worth of work was scrapped, and some planned features were dropped, like an intelligent data storage system called WinFS. The new work, Microsoft decided, would take a new approach. Vista was built more in small modules that then fit together like Lego blocks, making development and testing easier to manage. "They did the right thing in deciding that the Longhorn code was a tangled, hopeless mess, and starting over," said Mr. Cusumano of M.I.T. "But Vista is still an enormous, complex structure." nytimes.com

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