The definition of the word "separate", however, can vary. Separate here is referring to the end result: when you add up all the different server versions & editions, and languages, the final number of permutations is 133. However, don't think that they are doing the same engineering work 133 times; I imagine the developer who made the actual fix did it once for win2k and once for win2003, and then automated tools went ahead and did whatever work was needed for supporting the various editions/languages.
Vista is a huge step forward, in that they have FINALLY separated out the language-specific resources into separate files. That way when all they need to do is change the code, they can release a single patch for all languages. It also means that international corporations only need to test and deploy a single patch as well.
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