Visual C++ vs. All other Environments ??

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@ Arjay and egawtry

lol, that was a great discussion... its really Interesting to hear from the history of MS and Windows....

so, from one of the above post, i think Arjay worked in MS Windows team...

Anyway, i am an yesterday comer.. the earliest operating system i've seen installed on PC was Windows 3.1 in my elder bro's PC... i was not big that time

Its great, MS had re-written entire code for WinNT... now, there is some rumour i've heard they have completely dumped the code of Windows Vista, which was a flop, and had Re-Written almost all the code for Windows7

Although impossible to believe, but i had to believe.. when i first used Windows7... because. its simply Awesome!!! Even i can rate it 5 out of 5 for its User Experience and Wow factor....

I think MS really had re-written the entire code...

[Arjay]

@ Arjay and egawtry

lol, that was a great discussion... its really Interesting to hear from the history of MS and Windows....

so, from one of the above post, i think Arjay worked in MS Windows team...

Anyway, i am an yesterday comer.. the earliest operating system i've seen installed on PC was Windows 3.1 in my elder bro's PC... i was not big that time

Its great, MS had re-written entire code for WinNT... now, there is some rumour i've heard they have completely dumped the code of Windows Vista, which was a flop, and had Re-Written almost all the code for Windows7

Although impossible to believe, but i had to believe.. when i first used Windows7... because. its simply Awesome!!! Even i can rate it 5 out of 5 for its User Experience and Wow factor....

I think MS really had re-written the entire code...

Frankly I don't know where these rumors come from. I guess the MS haters will come up with anything. If you re-read what I wrote, I didn't say that MS re-wrote entire code for the NT4 shell - I said a portion of code was re-written (and when you look at how large the entire code base for NT was, it would be a relatively small portion).

I'm not involved with MS at present, but I can tell you there is no way that the entire code base for Vista was dumped. Vista is the same family this is NT starting with NT3.1, NT3.5, NT4, Win2K, XP, 2K3 Server, Vista and soon to be Windows 7.

As far as I understand, there were quite a few optimization made to Win7 and UI improvements, but it's primarly the same code base.