Paul's article provides an interesting insight into Microsoft and Vista's development. It a shame Paul hasn't actually been able to speak to the people who are knowledgeable about the "reset" event. It would be interesting to find out what the general issues where and how they were resolved. Has the Vista development team adopted any agile techniques? Given the size and complexity of developing Vista, I'm sure if some of this information was made public it could benefit the whole of the software development industry? Maybe that's why its not being made public?
The new network stack coupled with a re-write of the event logging system and audio stack means Vista is really stacking up to be almost a band new OS. Definately an impressive turn around from the last PDC Longhorn release back in 2003.