man... it just doesn't stop raining sometimes... This article claims that 60% of the Vista code needs to be rewritten and that Microsoft are busy restructuring their development teams and dragging resources off the xbox project to fix up the problems they've been getting with the Media Centre component of the new operating system. I know this looks like I'm continuing a bit of a theme but honestly that's not the intention - it's just something that I've been seeing on the sites that I scan every now and then.

"Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN"
Smarthouse - Platforms

Interestingly enough, if you've read the last couple of posts about Microsoft pumping $500million into a marketing blitz of their 2007 products, you'll notice that the article suggests that "Analysts estimate that Microsoft`s delays in releasing the next generation of its operating system, known as Vista, have cost it about $500 million".

Here's a hot tip - sometimes you need to make the call between spending the money on convincing the public that your products are great, and actually getting down to the task of just making them great in the first place.