Microsoft's Windows Vista will be released on January 30th and I thought it was interesting to compare Vista with Windows 95. Windows 95 had a retail price of $89.95 compared to Vista's $199 to $399 price tag. Windows 95 had 11.2 million lines of code, and Vista has a reported 50 million lines of code. There were 200 programers for Windows 95 and a reported 2,000 programers for Windows Vista. (Information taken from Newstoday.com)Windows 95 revolutionized the computing world and established Microsoft as the premier leader in the computing world. I think that Vista will have a large impact on the computing world, but will be nothing like the impact of Windows 95 because there were no other major competitors such as Apple. There have already been many complaints about the resource hungry Windows Vista, so it will be interesting to see how sucessful Vista is when it is released to the public January 30th.
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