is Microsoft itself, as it decides to completely rewrite Windows.
For those outside the software engineering communities, here's the clue: there is one, and only one, way to destroy a great product -- and that's to rewrite it from scratch. And the larger the product (Windows is immense), the longer and larger a failure the effort will be. This has been true of every 'large' software project since the early 1960s.
Wow.
Posted by mark at June 17, 2004 09:08 PM