Broken Windows: Why Vista’s so late

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Jun 15, 20061 min

Best of the blogs: Dave Rosenberg posts a crack at explaining why Windows Vista is so late. Think code that is way too complicated, more than 50 dependency layers, and Windows process that has gone thermonuclear. Broken Windows Theory.

Columnists’ corner: Search is a game-changer, explains Jon Udell in Building connection engines with metadata. But only if it “radiates potential connections.” Hence, the applications InfoWorld Power Search and InfoWorld Metadata Explorer he created. “By syndicating that metadata, I’m inviting others to more richly contextualize their aggregations of our stuff,” Udell writes. “If other publishers will return the favor, I’ll gladly make better use of theirs. Any takers?”

Podcasts: Hitachi goes for the content-addressable storage goal, but the competition heats up as NetApp took to that field, too, on Monday. Listen to Storage Sprawl.

The news beat: Motorola and others launch a foundation to create an open Linux-based software platform for mobile devices. Startup Parallels’ Desktop is now available for the Mac, enabling users to run Windows and Mac OS X side by side. HTC unwrapped two new 3G handsets that run Windows Mobile 5.0. And here’s a look at June’s coolest gadgets.