DeMoN LaG wrote:
> Jerry Baker wrote:
>
>> Gavin Long wrote:
>>
>> Some people see that Microsoft has been aboe to release 4 new operating
>> system versions since the initial release of source code for the Mozilla
>> Project and without knowing the fiscal disparities wonder how it is that
>> it takes longer to write one browser version than 4 operating systems.
>
>
> Well, actually if you think about it they didn't write 4 new operating systems.
> 98 was an upgrade of 95, SE was just an update on 98, and ME is just an upgrade
> of that. Sorta like they made 98, 98.1, 98.2 and 98.3. if the 4th you speak of
> is Win 2k then I would say that's pretty good, as i hear only about 15-20% of
> the code was borrowed from NT 4
ok, but it needed also a long time from the NT 4 release until win 2k
release :-), so this one is also an example for a long developing time
and microsoft has much more resources than mozilla.org.
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