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February 27, 2006
An Amazingly Honest Windows Architecture Interview
Don Gray sent me this link to an interview with the Windows team: Darryl Havens, Richard B. Ward, and Rich Neves, all Windows architects. Don's take:
"I can't believe how open these guys were during the interview. They basically said that Windows is a bunch of spaghetti code. It also sounds like Microsoft lost control of the code base. No wonder Vista is taking so long. Really scary stuff when you consider 90+% of the worlds computers run Windows"
Somewhere along the line, I heard that the re-calc function in Excel is such spaghetti code that only one developer in the entire world is allowed to touch it. Don't know if this is apocryphal or not. It might be true, given the video.
Posted by DavidK at February 27, 2006 05:23 PM | Permalink