From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message news:44c94173{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > and you think it unreasonable to suggest they go back to W2K to create
> the
>> > second leg of the fork?
>>
>> Yes. It's fantasy stuff, it'll never ever happen. They've already spent
>> probably more than 50.000 man years of work in XP, and who knows how much
> in
>> Vista - they'll never throw that away. It just won't happen.
>
> Ok you are saying they won't do it, I was asking if you think it's
> unreasonable to suggest that they do do it.

Yes, that too. There's a lot of good stuff been done during that 6 years,
too, that I'd hate to see thrown away.


> Weirder things have happened, they spent 2 years working on vista
> and decided to start over.

That's not true, that's just some stupid rumor going around. They may have
ditched some parts of the system, like the UI handling, but not the whole
thing.


Antti Kurenniemi

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