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Vista is not a ground-up rewrite by any stretch of the imagination. A considerable change, don't get me wrong, but not a rewrite; it could be seen as something
by microcolonel 9y ago
Vista is not a ground-up rewrite by any stretch of the imagination. A considerable change, don't get me wrong, but not a rewrite; it could be seen as something on the order of Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6. Windows 3 through ME were one codebase (like MacOS), and NT was (sorta, but not completely) another (like darwin/xnu). If anything current versions of NT have more Windows lineage than OS X has Mac lineage.