From: John Beckett 

Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote in message news::
> "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new
> Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company
"scrambles"
> to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.

I'm arriving late with a comment, and an old joke.

Only the terminally ignorant could repeat the absurd claim about 60% of
Vista being rewritten. It is obvious to anyone with an understanding of
software that the "60% of the code" quote is from someone who
totally misunderstood what they heard (or is completely fictitious).

However, I can't resist posting an old joke...

God invited George Bush, Vladimir Putin and Bill Gates to heaven and said:
"The world will end in three days! Now go and tell your people".

When Bush got back to Washington, he told his colleagues: "I have good
news and bad news. The good news is that God really does exist, and the bad
news is that the world will end in three days."

Putin told his comrades:
"I have only bad news. First, God really does exist, and second, the
world will end in three days."

Gates assembled his top software engineers and announced: "I have only
good news. First, God thinks I'm one of the world's three most important
people, and second, we don't have to fix the bugs in Windows!"

John

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