Vista marks end of 'planned software'

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 19, 2008 5:13 PM EDT
ZDNet Asia; By Victoria Ho
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Speaking at a forum here Friday, Whitehurst said the proprietary, "top-down, planned" software development model characteristic of closed source companies is coming to an end--one which is demonstrated by the number of bugs in Vista, he said. Whitehurst claimed that there are "half the number of bugs in Linux per thousand lines" compared to the Microsoft operating system, because of the open source collaborative model.

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