Tag: DELAY

iOS 4.2 was supposed to become available today, however new reports are coming in that its release has been delayed again. While the previously rumored delay existed thanks to issues with Japanese characters not being displayed properly, this delay has its roots in something more important -- Wi-Fi connection issues that have been reported by many users of the golden master for the iPad. What ...

January 2008... that's 14 months away, and it's the soonest, says Microsoft, that we can expect Service Pack 3 for Windows. Redmond has pushed back the Big Patch to the first half of '08, which means, some analysts say, we may never see it at all. They remember how Microsoft totally dropped SP5 for Windows 2000 in favor of an "update rollup," which some say wasn't as thoroughly tested as a ...

According to Microsoft exec Jim Allchin, Windows Vista isn't on track for RTM (release to manufacturing) on the its target date of October 25. Allchin says they're still "in pretty good shape" but that Vista doesn't yet fulfill all five categories they're looking at before RTM: reliability, security, performance, driver coverage and application compatibility. Allchin is confident they're still on ...

Have you ever wondered why Firefox makes you wait three seconds before you can click on the Install button when you want to install an extension? Most users (self included) assume that it's just to make users read the dialog. It turns out that's not the case--Jesse Ruderman explains that it's actually a security feature to keep people from unwittingly installing malicious code. He describes an ...

TechWeb is reporting that Mozilla Corp. has pushed back the release date of the final version of Firefox 2.0 into mid-to-late October, citing outstanding bugs. As of Monday's weekly progress meeting Firefox 2 has about 40 bugs to squash before it will be ready for a second beta release, and about 100 before its final release in October. Accordingly, Firefox 2.0 beta 2, which was supposed to be ...

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 ...

Certainty, it seems, isn't Microsoft's strong suit these days. Last we heard about Windows Vista's release date, Jim Allchin was saying it was right on track, but Steve Ballmer wasn't so sure. Now according to Bill Gates there's an "80 percent chance" that Vista will meet its targeted January launch date. That's what he said at a recent technology conference in Cape Town. Eighty percent isn't ...

There's a reason Microsoft called the next version of its office suite Office 2007 despite its projected October 2006 release date, and this is it. To nobody's surprise, Microsoft has pushed its release date back to early 2007 "based on internal testing and the beta 2 feedback around product performance." It has also pledged to deliver a "system release" (which I think means for OEMs) of Office ...

I'm so confused. First I read this Reuters report from yesterday that says Microsoft "is 'confident' that [Windows Vista] will meet its targeted launch date." That's according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Platform Products and Services Group. But then today there's a story at NeoWin that quotes CEO Steve Ballmer saying, "We think we are on track for shipping early in the year. We've ...

Another significant delay for Windows Vista would drop it firmly into the vaporware category right next to Duke Nukem Forever, but that's what analysts are saying is about to happen. Research firm Gartner Inc. says that Vista's release date will slip by at least three more months, making a consumer release fall in Q2 '07, between April and June. Microsoft disagrees, however, saying that it's still ...

Australia's Smarthouse magazine says a Microsoft insider has confirmed that "up to 60% of the code in the [Windows Vista] is set to be rewritten." The article says that Vista's entertainment and media center functionality is experiencing "many problems," and programmers from the Xbox 360 have been pulled in to help fix them. Furthermore, Smarthouse says Microsoft has ...

Following close behind the unsurprising delay of Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 has also gotten the pushed back, according to Microsoft Watch's Mary Jo Foley. Like Vista, Office 2007 was expected to ship late this year, and like Vista, we can now expect it in January of next year. Microsoft says the delay is not a "slip in schedule," but "a change in delivery for the benefit ...

Just when it was starting to look like Windows Vista was actually going to make its late-'06 ship date, along comes news that the new OS won't be available to consumers until January 2007. Microsoft's Jim Allchin says Vista is being pushed back because due to development delays some PC makers were concerned they would not be able to ship this year while others would. However, volume licenses for ...