Winer Doubts 60 Percent Story
Dave Winer casts doubt on Dave Richards’s story that Windows Vista is to have 60 percent of its code rewritten:
“According to David Richards, an unbelievable 60 percent of the Windows Vista code is going to be rewritten before it ships. It’s unbelievable because if it’s true, there’s no way it’s shipping in 2007. If true it’s not just a setback, it’s a multi-billion-dollar debacle on the scale of Apple’s Copland (which, if you recall, resulted in regime change). Basically until someone from Microsoft confirms this, I’d give it zero credence.”
He’s right about the timescale, but is he right to doubt the credence of the story? This is running all over the blogosphere and nobody from Redmond is rebutting it. Robert Scoble hasn’t blogged anything for 48 hours.
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