[seul-edu] Windows Reliability Threatened

[Kirk Rheinlander <kirk@kpj2.com>]

Bill Gates testified yesterday that if Windows was broken apart into

component pieces, the product reliability would be compromised.

Does this mean that Windows reliability could get worse?

Any software architect worth his salt, knows that monolithic code on

a large project radically increases the complexity, and therefore,
the potential for errors, and resultant decrease in reliability.

If this is, as Mr. Gates testified, a monolithic entity that cannot
be easily broken apart, the potential for significant errors is not
only probable, it is a statistical guarantee!! With NT (the last
Windows version that I have documented KLOC data on) it had over 30
million LOC (lines of code). Performance would be compromised, for
everyone knows that abstraction interfaces between modules decreases

performance (that is why Windows is so fast and LINUX so slow, right

;-)

Yet with 30 million lines of code, one would assume that significant

redundancy exists in the code.

OK, so the famed reliability of LINUX, being made up of many modular

entities, is a fluke?? And the "f[l]amed" [un]reliabliity of Windows

is due to it's superior design.

It is a good thing that this debacle is in a court of law; the
technical community should be able to see through this testimony as
the sham that it is!

MHO - Kirk