Bill Gates is on the record as saying there's an
80% chance Windows Vista will ship on time, but he seems to be the only one that certain it'll be ready. In order to meet its targeted release, Vista will have to be shipped to PC manufacturers in October or early November, which gives them somewhere between eight and fourteen weeks to get it done. More than a few people think that that's not possible, or at least very unwise. One of those people is .NET Developer and Vista enthusiast Robert McLaws, who is urging Microsoft to
push the release back to February 2007. More interestingly, former Softie Robert Scoble has
gone on the record agreeing with McLaws, writing, "If [Vista] ships in October, I will recommend not installing it and waiting for the first service pack. There's no way the quality will be high enough to trust it if it ships early. I hope Microsoft takes the time to do this right." Ouch. What's more, at Microsoft's recent meeting of financial analysts, Kevin Johnson, co-president of its Platforms & Services division, conspicuously avoided confirming Vista's ship date, saying it would ship "when it's ready."
Tags: commercial, delay, osupdates, Robert McLaws, Robert Scoble, RobertMclaws, RobertScoble, vista, windows, windowsvista
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Subscribe to commentsRyan CarterAug 1st 2006 4:12PM
It is like a magic rainbow. Every time you get close to the pot of gold it seems further away still. Just when you think you've reached the summit, there is a higher one to climb. Here's to hoping we will reach the forbidden Vista someday...
Atanas BoevAug 1st 2006 4:46PM
At the end of the post:
"Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an Apple store during the World Wide Developer Conference on August 7th."
Hmmmmm.... :)
FabuloAug 1st 2006 5:16PM
I wonder how many times they had to re-write the whole thing internally.
At the very opposite side there's Apple, which steadily spits out a 'new' version of MacOS every year, boasting 150 new features every time (I'm not sure what they are, I only have a mac, stuck at 10.3)
It's clear Microsoft re-writes most of everything every time. Apple is polishing the existing one and adding incremental improvement.