“Sources at the company told me this week that Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006. However, because the Vista development schedule is extremely time constrained, the company will try and make up lost time by eliminating one of the planned release candidate (RC) milestones that were planned for later in the process,” Paul Thurrott reports for WinInfo.
“Previously, sources had revealed to me that Microsoft would at least delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 until late December. This more recent delay suggests that the company is having a difficult time meeting its internal shipping criteria for Beta 2, which is considered a major milestone release and will be made widely available to testers and the public. It’s not known at this time whether the delay will affect related product releases such as Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 Beta 2 and Windows Media Player 11 Beta 1, both of which were also originally set for a December 7 public release,” Thurrott reports.
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Oh my, everyone is dissing Microsoft yet again. And on a mac site no less. Just kidding.
Seriously though, for those of us that are happy using both platforms, I’ll wait eagerly for Vista. I have not found the first Beta even remotely similar to my Tiger. If it’s 2008 when it finally gets released I will be fine with that. I’m totally content with XP for the time-being. Yes, that’s right – content – as in – it does everything I can’t do on my Mac – games etc.
And for some of the earlier posters who stated nobody would go out and buy Vista hot off the presses, just like I was when when Tiger arrived, I will be there to get it.
Hate Microsoft if you will, they certainly have bungled many times, as has Apple, though I will concede that Microsoft has bungled far more often – and in a much more significant way than Apple in the recent past. However, they are under far more scrutiny than Apple has been – with a far larger user-base. Everything they do is second-guessed and it’s gotta be tough from their standpoint.
Just some thoughts from both sides of the fence.
MDW: “love” – as in I love ’em both.
If you, andrew, use WIndows and Mac OSX and still say you love both equally, then I fear it makes you a very odd fellow indeed.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
What’s the problem…New Sony style DRM not working as expected?
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Brad T – re: “Viger”
Any relation to “Vger” from that Star Trek movie?
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Well, Macaday, I do like OSX and XP equally, but for different reasons. I think it’s better to know the value of both, rather than one alone.
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