The creation of Windows Vista: Jim Allchin fighting his demons!

Este pequeño artículo me lo mando el buen Andrecito el día de hoy. Básicamente platica como Jim Allchin reformó la manera de desarrollar software y cuales fueron los retos de desarrollar Longhorn… muy interesante el acercamiento que hicieron…

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While Windows itself couldn’t be a single module — it had too many functions for that — it could be designed so that Microsoft could easily plug in or pull out new features without disrupting the whole system. That was a cornerstone of a plan Messrs. Srivastava and Valentine proposed to their boss, Mr. Allchin. Microsoft would have to throw out years of computer code in Longhorn and start out with a fresh base. It would set up computers to automatically reject bug-laden code. The new Longhorn would have to be simple. It would leave bells and whistles for later — including Mr. Gates’s WinFS, Messrs. Srivastava and Allchin say.