I dunno, Jim. What's your definition of semi-independent parts?

>Well I'll take a 99.9999% objective any day!
>MS makes it even tougher on itself (no doubt customer demand has MUCH to do with this) in that they support a huge combination of versions/fix-levels of a HUGE number of individual and semi-independent "pieces" (components). I'm betting that MS will eventually reduce the number of semi-independent parts SIGNIFICANTLY in favour of delivering 99.9999% reliable software.