“There’s an 80 percent chance that Windows Vista, Microsoft’s next generation operating system, will be ready for its scheduled release in January, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said,” Margaret Kane blogs for CNET.
“According to a Dow Jones Newswires report, Gates told Microsoft software partners in South Africa this week that the operating system could be delayed yet again if beta testers turn up problems,” Kane reports.
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Microsoft’s most-recent plan is to inflict the operating system upon corporate customers in late 2006 and consumers in January 2007.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Too Hot!” for the heads up.]
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MW: followed, as in, ehhh…..I got nothing.
But when the Jobster gives a date for the almighty Leopard, let’s see if Apple makes that date or not, shall we?
And let us not assume Vista testers WILL turn up problems. Bill Gates thinks it’s 80% likely that they won’t, and he knows a wee bit more about Vista than you & me.
“Late but great” is the Vista motto. If it’s great enough, then “I can wait” is my motto. Soon maybe we’ll see how Leopard stacks up and then I can choose WHAT to wait for.
Gates: “At this point, there is a 1in 5 chance it will slip again.”
Nobody wants Vista yet even if they released it today the corporate world for sure wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole!
MDN MW = seven. As in the year ’07. Gonna be a good year for Apple, and not for MIç®ø£øƒ†, if its a true magic word. Vista wont be released until….eight, nine, even ten. Maybe M¢ will be out of business by then..
Laugh now>
But let’s also remember that MSFT shipped Windows 2000 Workstation with over 100,000 ‘issues’ (the Microsoft euphemism for ‘bugs’). So I wouldn’t be surprised if the world gets the pleasure of Windows Vista and then has to wait for an SP1 release for it to be viable in a corporate workplace.
The sole reason these con artists are releasing Vista in 2006 is so that they can’t be held to account by corporate Software Assurance customers who lashed out money from 2004 onwards to get access to the oft-promised (as-yet undelivered) Longhorn.
Gates warns yet another Windows Vista delay possible
OF course, they want to copy whatever Apple puts in 10.5
Also another dirty little tidbit, TPM (which Intel and Microsoft have created and is used in MacTels) has been successfully been hacked.
So the whole “trusted computing” thing is on it’s ass (hurray!)
So the delay is because they are making it tougher.
yes i will laugh now, and ill laugh even harder when that pathetic, diseased OS called vista FINALLY hits the shelves like sack of lead.
the operating system could be delayed yet again if beta testers turn up problems
Whew! Only if beta testers find problems? That puts my mind at ease. I mean, how likely is it that the beta testers will find any problems? I’m sure all the tests will pass with flying colors and Vista will come out as scheduled.
(And then monkeys will fly out of my butt.)
I think they are waiting to see Leopard then they will try to see how long it will take them to copy it. Then they will say they had the ideas months ago and Apple copied them.
The need the extra time to allow MS engineers to attend the Apple Dev Conference next month.
Ironically, in related news, there’s a 80% chance that Vista will suck.
Actually, I’ve been laughing for years.
Going forward, maybe there won’t be any more Vista problems-but on the other hand, Vista is about 2-3 years late BECAUSE of problems. Maybe it’s about time the problems were reduced. Doncha think?
That’s an interesting way to look at it, Laugh Now. Here’s my take: Vista, originally named Longhorn, was announced to ship years ago. About the time that Mac OS X 10.2 was scheduled to ship. Right on schedule, OS X 10.2 shipped – and it worked and was very good. No Longhorn. Next came 10.3 announcements. Longhorn’s new schedule was up for about the same time. 10.3 shipped, and was even better than 10.2! Longhorn…didn’t.
We are now halfway through 2006. Steve Jobs has not yet announced Leopard’s intended delivery date. However, I’ll guaran-fucking-tee you that it won’t be announced and then slip a few years.
I don’t know any PC users who are excited about Vista. None are anxious to get the Aero interface and they’re all dreading installation woes. Not to mention, a total lack of real assurance of any improved security than they’re getting with current anti-spyware and third party security apps. If Vista is not a requirement to ugrading PC hardware, what’s the real point? Dell and HP will be ramming Vista shite down the throats of new PC buyers once the beleagured OS finally ships. Good luck Windows users.
There is a 80% chance that I will
have an explosive bowel movement,
but not one person will welcome it
when it arrives.
Now we get to see the clock count down to Apple going out of business. Between Vista and the new MP3 player Apple doesn’t have anything to sell but tee shirts. The downward spiral of their stock shows that the public knows how much trouble Apple is in and that there is no way to fix it. Fortunately there is another company out there that produces a real operating system for real computers — Microsoft.
mac realist=comedian
Speak, oh toothless one.
4 to 1 odds that it WILL ship by “late 2006.” Is there a place in Vegas where I can place a bet that it WILL NOT, with those odds?
Frankly, when the company’s board chairman makes a statement like that (with a percent likelihood and comment about beta-testers), it is a “warning.” Why didn’t he just say it “we expect Vista to ship as currently scheduled” if he was REALLY 80% sure it would do so?
“Ironically, in related news, there’s a 80% chance that Vista will suck.”
Only 80? Isn’t MS’s suckiness directly proportional to their market share?
They are waiting to copy whatever Apple comes out with in August as part of Leopard! Microsoft SUCKS!!!! I can’t wait for the day when Microsoft collapses like Enron. The day will come, too. Just wait. It might not be for another 10 or 15 years, but it will come.
Simple-
Get the Public Beta, play with it, find all the problems you can, really not hard, bombard m$ with these glaring problems, vista delayed ONCE again, stock tanks, people buy real computers (read Apple here)
Mac Realist- I will not dignify you with a flame, please go to another site, this one is dedicated to and created for inteligent people.
“[…] the operating system could be delayed yet again if beta testers turn up problems.”
Okay. Here’s the timeline.
August 7: Steve Jobs shows off Leopard.
August 9: Bill Gates announces an unexpected delay in Vista.
Holy crap.
Roll me some of what Mac Realist is smoking.