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How Big Will Longhorn Get? | |
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| Time: 12:18 EST/17:18 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
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One of the things you seldom hear Microsoft officials talk about is how many lines of programming code go into Windows. It’s a reasonable assumption that Microsoft’s operating system has grown in size in its 20-year history, with layer upon layer of new features added while major chunks of legacy code remain intact. By some estimates, Windows is comprised today of some 50 million lines of code. And it looks like Longhorn is shaping up to be the biggest Windows version ever. I’ve asked Microsoft folks about the projected size of Longhorn repeatedly over the past year or so because, in my mind, it indicates growing complexity and, for a company still trying to get Windows’ security vulnerabilities under control, a potential point of concern. If hackers are able to find holes in 50 million lines of Windows code, doesn’t it stand to reason that they’ll have a bigger target with, say, 75 million? | ||
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| #1 By 20 (24.173.210.58) at 4/26/2005 5:59:35 PM |
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I'm so tired of the stupid lay press. You'd think a rag that writes about technology might actually have someone with a clue writing for them, but.. *sigh*.
Actually, Longhorn will probably be the most fit and trim because they've eliminated something like 17,000 C-style Win32 APIs and replaced them with 8,000 or so .NET Classes. They're moving the majority of old-school C-style Win32 APIs into .NET Assemblies. Probably by the next version of Longhorn, the only APIs remaining will be the ones that only make sense as unmanaged code. The rest will become entirely managed code, or at least managed wrappers around unmanaged code. |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.34.36) at 4/27/2005 8:55:05 AM |
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Ok, this headline deserves one of those "Write the Cartoon Caption" contests...
:) -Larry |
| #3 By 17996 (66.188.88.180) at 4/27/2005 9:40:39 AM |
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daz - they aren't getting rid of any of the Win32 APIs... otherwise compatibility would go down the drain fast.
You're right that they are encapsulating more and more of the APIs into .NET... and many of the new functionalities are .NET only... but it'll be a long long time, if ever, before the Win32 APIs go away. |
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