Microsoft Research head: iPhone uses 25 year old code
Posted by james on October 29th, 2008 at 09:56pm Comments
It appears that Microsoft can’t miss a chance to say something bad about the iPhone. This time around it’s the turn of Microsoft Research head, senior VP Rick Rashid.
While speaking at Professional Developer Conference today Mr Rashid stated: “If you use a Macintosh or an iPhone, which honestly I would not recommend, you would be using code that I wrote more than 25 years ago.”
To his credit Mr Rashid was indeed responsible for coding the Mach kernel that powers Mac OS X. He went on to say “If you’d asked me 25 years ago if I thought code I was (writing, would be) running today on a cell phone, my reaction would have been ‘what’s a cell phone? …It just shows you things really do survive and get used in interesting ways.”
The big question, then, is what has Microsoft been doing in the last 25 years? This writer really prefers iPhone’s 25 year old code as opposed to Windows Mobile 6’s brand new code. How about you?
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