02-08-2009, 12:22 AM | #91 | |
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I'm certain tw knows a lot about this stuff too, but he's grouchy.
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It is that reason...
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It is that reason why Mark Russinovich's company (Sysinternals) was bought by Microsoft. He was brought in to clean it up. |
02-08-2009, 04:03 PM | #94 | |
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Microsoft basically had no useful analysis tools for Windows. System Internals are informative tools. That spaghetti code is a symptom of poor planning at the architect's level. Is probably why the head of Windows was removed because of Vista's development. Are Russinovich and Cogwell working as architects for Microsoft Windows? |
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I know. I appreciated that as well. I just wanted to point out that I do need to learn...or be a slave to others forever. I wouldn't make a good slave. I'm too mouthy.
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02-08-2009, 04:08 PM | #96 |
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Yeah, but you'd look great in a Princess Leia slave outfit.
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02-08-2009, 04:09 PM | #97 |
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You have no idea.
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02-08-2009, 04:32 PM | #98 | |
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Russinovich is
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Mark Russinovich is one of the lead Windows architects now. He was one of the forces behind MinWin, which was the refactoring of the Windows code to remove dependencies and make it easier to build and maintain the product. Quote:
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MinWin, as I stated, is the re-architecture of Windows itself to remove circular dependencies and build issues. It's a complete refactoring of the base of the system itself and the components to make it easier to build, maintain, and debug. Windows, before Windows 7, was devilishly complex to debug and fix issues with. Mark Russinovich did something nearly impossible, which was to help resolve that. |
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We would if you'd put on the costume and take the picture.
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02-08-2009, 11:56 PM | #102 |
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And now for something completely different ...
I came across an item on the MSN home page for Sunday, 08 FEB 09 that reminded me of this thread. It was a link titled Ranked: Security software which led to an article by PC World on evaluations of security suites (pay for packages).
Though a bit off topic, I found the ranking of security suites in that article versus the ranking of components in this thread to be interesting; so, I linked it here FYI. |
02-09-2009, 05:30 PM | #103 | |
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How many architects does Microsoft use on Windows? And what happened to Bruce Cogwell? |
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Uh, dude, I just looked that costume up online and uh, yeah...no. :p
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Ok, that's reaching.
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Somehow I think re-architecting the core of the product is more important than addressing Paint, Notepad, Solitaire (which got a redesign for Vista anyway), or Defrag (which Microsoft does not own, and is licensed from the Diskeeper corporation) . Microsoft doesn't publish how many architects they use on Windows. They just publish the ones that are the most famous, such as Mark Russinovich, David Cutler, and Bryce Cogswell (who is still at MS from what I understand). Quote:
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