Talk:Microsoft Windows

Article Checklist for "Microsoft Windows"

Workgroup category or categories	Computers Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developing article: beyond a stub, but incomplete
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	Joshua David Williams 13:34, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

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MS-DOS based?

In the textbox the OS type is listed as "MS-DOS based." This isn't entirely accurate. If you're talking about Windows 1.0 through Windows ME, then yes it is MS-DOS based. However, Windows Vista is based on Windows NT, which was a complete rewrite from scratch. Windows Vista is more accurately Windows NT based, and to truly be accurate, Windows NT (whose development was headed by Dave Cutler from DEC) was based on VMS.

I'll change the textbox to say Windows NT... the long term fix would be to have an article devoted to the MS-DOS based Windows versions. --Eric M Gearhart 12:35, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

Wikipedia..

Could we please just re-write this article from scratch? I'm getting really sick of these articles imported from Wikipedia. I believe we should scrap what we have no entirely and re-write it to conform to the Citizendium standards. --Joshua David Williams 13:07, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

Josh: lol let's go then. We can improve on what's there right now, rather than blanking it. Enough changes and additions need to be made that it won't fall under "Content is from Wikipedia" anyway --Eric M Gearhart 13:10, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

Heh. You beat me to the first edit :P How about I take the introduction and you work on the sub-sections so our work doesn't conflict? --Joshua David Williams 13:17, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

Yes that sounds fine. I was already working on the Windows/286 subsection anyway. There's a LOT that can be said on this article.... --Eric M Gearhart 13:25, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

But then again, there's a lot to be said about every article lol ;) --Joshua David Williams 13:26, 7 April 2007 (CDT)

Showstopper

Does anyone have a copy of "Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft"? It's a great book that describes the development of Windows NT and how Cutler and a couple of folks were hired away from DEC. If no on has it I'll order it from Amazon... it's a good book that I'll read again anyway --Eric M Gearhart 12:15, 14 May 2007 (CDT)