From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 12/18/2025 5:41 AM, Ammammata wrote:   
   > Nomen Nescio brought next idea :   
   >> Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher   
   >> that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a   
   >> decade of devastating hacks that exploited it   
   >   
   > how long do you think it will take to rewrite *from scratch* the whole   
   operating system, presuming they have a complete to do list of what is needed   
   to be modern and working worldwide?   
   >   
   > how many people and separated teams?   
   >   
   > two years are enough?   
   >   
      
   Vista took quite a while to write (5 years).   
      
   Vista wasn't tested properly when it was rushed out.   
   It needed SP1 and SP2 to make it whole. And Windows 7   
   profited from the effort.   
      
   They rewrite parts of it, they change the architecture   
   of parts of it (how sound is done). They use a   
   "Software Factory" to deliver it.   
      
   It's not the "drop dead effort" popular in the past,   
   where you throw the OS away and rewrite it. Other companies   
   do this too (rolling release, evolution nor revolution).   
      
   *******   
      
   The thing is, people assume if you write a "clean" thing,   
   it is "so so much better than the old thing". That does   
   not have to be the case. Bugs will be added at the same   
   rate they were always added. The new thing will be   
   "dirty in no time". That's part of the reason there is   
   no profit in doing crazy stuff (like using Linux as the   
   engine or something :-) ). When you have 7000 developers,   
   you can make a lot of mistakes.   
      
      Paul   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)