At 5:58 PM -0600 2/27/04, Alun Jones wrote: >Microsoft has a lot of code to contend with, and much of it is old - so a >lot of it has had to be scrubbed clean of imperfections, and some has had to >be re-written.
A few years ago I heard the problem described as the opposite - that for Windows V.something about 30% of the existing code was entirely replaced (compared to corrected), which is more than _any_ organization can handle safely on a project of that size.