Re: Microsoft admits that Windows is short-term support in realistic terms

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:32:44 -0500, CrudeSausage wrote:

On 2025-02-20 7:19 p.m., Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:50:31 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
 

Are you a developer with intimate knowledge of the inner workings of
Windows? Windows doesn't work that way mostly for marketing reasons.

 
Nobody knows how Windows works, not even Microsoft’s own engineers.
 
Who in the world, inside or outside of Microsoft, can answer yes to the
first question? Nobody.

 
I would be surprised about this considering how they rewrote most of it
in the mid-2000s.

They tried to. Remember “Longhorn”, which became Windows Vista? They were
promising a whole bunch of new major technologies, none of which
eventually shipped. Remember why it was so late? Because somebody had the
bright idea of writing core parts of it in Dotnet. Which turned out to be
a really bad idea. So the infamous “Longhorn Reset” involved chucking out
and replacing all that Dotnet code. And even with the delay, they still
had to rush to get it out. Hence all the bugs and inefficiencies and
instabilities and other trouble.

Why does Windows need to reboot about 5 times during an install? Because
nobody at Microsoft knows to reliably shut down and restart their own
services, so it’s easier just to reboot everything.