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Vista Beta 2 delayed
Here we go again. ActiveWin reports from "sources" that Windows Vista Beta 2 will be delayed until as late as February 2006. And since Vista is supposedly going live in 2006, they will apparently try to catch up by skipping a release candidate milestone later on. My question is this: what's the hold up? Granted, this is very sensitive info. No one at MS wants to be the "problem child," but they are under incredible pressure to perform. The million dollar question is what components are at risk here? WinFS has been a problem, so it's been pushed back to a service pack for Vista. Other features have met the same fate. So I guess what I'm getting at is this: will another feature be dropped in order to hit the 2006 launch window?
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Subscribe to commentsYourTechSupportNov 11th 2005 1:09PM
Windows Vista will finally ship missing a number of features that people are counting on. But I have good news! The vector graphics, sidebar, widgets, all the 'bells and whistles' the 'average consumer' craves will be "Bill Rigged" into place by the release to compete with OS-X. If you're hoping for greater security or efficiency, then you should see other options.
On that note, does anyone have a few grand they could spare so I can buy a computer to RUN this thing?
Christian Gonz?z Ver?Nov 11th 2005 2:47PM
For half that money you can get a powerbook that already does much of all the "new features" of vista, and by the time bob releases the vista thing you will already be drooling with leopard running on the MacIntels
AFDNov 11th 2005 4:46PM
They should just wait until 2010 to release Vista - and give themselves time to do it right. I think it's odd that the new WinFS file system will be released as a service pack - shouldn't this be considered a core part of the OS? I'm not really sure if WinFS will be a successful data solution, but it sure seems a lot more innovative than the eye-candy interface and DRM restrictions there gonna try to sell us next year.
Here is an interesting article on the WinFS filesystem if anybody's interested:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/WinFS/
JustinNov 12th 2005 5:50PM
nothing
FabuloNov 15th 2005 10:48PM
Problem with Windows is that it's fine as it is. Windows 2000 was the best OS ever. Windows XP adds Color by Playmobil, eye candy (make your eyes bleed eye candy) and most important, Cleartype font smoothing.
Think about it. It shouws you icons for your programs and open your files. What more should your OS do?
Vista/longhorn probably has been scrapped and restarted 3 times inside MS, because for an army of talent such as the ones at Microsoft, it does not take 5 years to spit out an incremental upgrade to the last version of windows.