REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 26 The Windows Vista operating system, five years in the making, is Microsoft Corp.'s last major software product made the old-fashioned way, the company says.The complex, time-consuming process of crafting computer code line-by-line, which prompted repeated launch delays, is a thing of the past, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said.Software applications nowadays are developed and distributed over the Internet within weeks, USA Today observes.By contrast, it took Microsoft five years and some 10,000 workers to create Vista.As the company's most lengthy operating system development project, it is a last vestige of the Microsoft Way, USA Today said. Vista is scheduled to be available to consumers worldwide Tuesday.Copyright 2007 by UPI
