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   From: nobody@haph.org   
      
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   Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:54:37 GMT in comp.os.linux.advocacy, wrote:   
      
   > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:37:10 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:47:37 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I'm unaware of vista being a rewrite.   
   >>   
   >> It’s certainly a failed attempt at a rewrite. Microsoft wanted to prove   
   >> the value of its Dotnet technology by rewriting large parts of the lower   
   >> levels of Windows to use it. Too late, they discovered that their   
   >> wonderful “managed runtime” led to absolutely horrible performance, so   
   >> they had to rip it all out and start again (the infamous “Longhorn   
   >> Reset” you may have heard about).   
   >>   
   >> This added maybe two years to the development time. And then they had to   
   >> rush the rework after that to avoid the whole project getting even   
   >> later. And so Vista turned into the mess we remember on its release.   
   >   
   > I've said it before but I was part of testing that rewrite. The entire   
   > development of Vista was a complete mess and the operating system was   
   > barely usable. Just about anything caused a crash so submitting bug   
   > reports was rather easy. I was a nice enough Microsoft fan that I didn't   
   > mind the testing and the submitting, and I was happy that they rewarded me   
   > with an Ultimate ISO of Vista (and later an Ultimate ISO of 7). When they   
   > informed us that Vista was releasing to manufacturers, I was shocked   
   > because it was nowhere near stable.   
      
   :) I had all of that via technet. It spoiled several of us rotten. The first   
   time I had to do an onsite to service a vista machine, I was gobsmacked that   
   it was actually in the wild in it's state. It reminded me of WindowsME so   
   much in terms of instability. It was so bad, it reminded me of a hilarious   
   old joke in the trades. "It compiled? Ship the damn thing!"    
      
      
      
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