From: Adam 

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1993524,00.asp

Dvorak

"Microsoft needs to back up and re-fork its OS development from
Windows 2000 Professional or even Windows NT 4.0. Then it needs to find a
"pope" who can understand the code base. Let me explain.

First, the coders seem to assume that Windows 2000 Professional is the best
version of the system ever. There are a lot of reasons for this assumption,
not the least of which is that you can do multiple installs without having
to call Microsoft Central and explain why. It's also not the most visually
attractive version of Windows, and that has a certain appeal to the
pizza-eating slobs who tend to be heavily into coding. (I'm ducking flying
pizza.)"


"If Microsoft does not change, and in the years ahead produces another
Vista fiasco, then the company is done for. There is one opportunity
sitting in front of it right now. That is the option for someone to tell
the crew to go back in time and fork Windows 2000 back to its state before
Win XP was rolled out. In other words, scrap everything that went into Win
XP.

Scrapping code and backtracking is very difficult to accept, but it's the
only way. In fact, the minute that Vista started falling apart, Microsoft
should have pulled the plug on development and gone back to square one, at
the Windows 2000–XP schism"


Adam

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