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Why Windows 8 we have barely used 7?
by okeumeni 16y ago
Why Windows 8 we have barely used 7?
- Ocho-Bits 16y agoWindows usually has a three year cicle. Vista stopped this mostly because of the development hell that it was.
- zsouthboy 16y agoMy favorite part is where they threw it all out, reset to 2003 codebase, and started from scratch basically, 18ish months before release.[1] So from a technical standpoint, Vista took longer [5 years] and had less development time [under 2 years] actually make it into the product. (Yes, code they already had they could and did reincorporate into the final product, but still, wow.) [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/16/481625.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2005/10/16/481625.as... This post is full of snark by the way, but it is useful to know what went wrong with Vista. (TL;DR: Management of very large software development is _hard_)
- ugh 16y ago1985: Windows 1.0 1987: Windows 2.0 1990: Windows 3.0 (1992: Windows 3.1) 1995: Windows 95 1998: Windows 98 (2000: Windows ME) 2001: Windows XP 2006/2007: Windows Vista 2009: Windows 7 2012: Windows 8 Nothing out of the ordinary.
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