Why Vista Release Date Really Slipped

A team manager for Windows for 5 years has decided to write a blog-essay about what caused Windows Vista project to miss the due date. Philip tells us in the blog, that Windows developers are writing an average of 5000 lines of code (which is *only* 1200 lines less than the national average of 6200 lines of code per year). He addresses issues like the Vista code being too complicated, the processes the developers have to follow too complex and a lot more.

Of course this is a complex system, but how does that cause the date to slip? It’s simply poor date prediction, in my opinion. Read more at Slashdot.