“In its manic bid to keep Windows Vista on track despite constant development delays, Microsoft could cancel its eagerly anticipated Beta 2 milestone and simply utilize Community Technical Preview (CTP) releases until Release Candidate 0 (RC0) is ready in March or April 2006. According to my sources, this plan would allow the company to continue plotting the final release of Windows Vista for the third quarter of 2006,” Paul Thurrott reports for Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo. “Microsoft has now rejiggered the Windows Vista development schedule so many times it’s almost comical.”
MacDailyNews Take: No “almost” qualifier is necessary, Paul; it simply is comical. And “eagerly anticipated?” By whom, exactly? How many people do you know that eagerly anticipate train wrecks? Is it even possible to keep a train wreck “on track?”
Thurrott continues, “But the previous major change, in which Windows Vista Beta 2 was delayed from December 7, 2005 to the end of the year and then until January or February 2006, at least kept all of the products major milestones intact. Now, it’s clear that the company feels it can get the feedback it needs with CTP builds, which are released in a more timely nature than major beta builds… What’s not known, of course, is how this change will affect the public release of a Windows Vista beta build.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Are these constant slips and delays really surprising to anybody? After all, it took Microsoft eleven years to produce an upside down and backwards bad fake of the original Mac OS, so it shouldn’t be too much of a shock that even after they’ve grown rich beyond imagination (monopoly abuse is like printing your own money), it’s still taking them many years (currently over 5 years and counting) to produce a bad fake of Mac OS X.
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Answer to TheConsuzed?’s question:
MS can release the final product on time by calling it the final product instead of a beta.
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Steve B.: BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Translation: GET THIS F’IN VISTA CRAP ON THE MARKET BEFORE MY F’IN HEART EXPLODES, YA F’IN BUNCH O’ F’IN CRAP KEYBOARD PUNCHERS. D’AAAAAAAAAAGH! <BAMF> OOF!
Bill G.: (On intercom): Cleanup, Aisle 5, Vista Core Programmer’s Womb. Cleanup, Aisle 5, Vista Core Programmer’s Womb.
I doubt that most are awaiting Vista, but one can sure hear developers grinding their teeth. They’ve had .NET shoved down their throats for years now, and Microsoft can’t even bother to squeeze off an OS that has the monsterous runtime installed.
Microsoft is pretty clueless, tho. Even Gates in an interview thinks almost everyone has broadband.
Alas Vista’s release will make many PC users believe Microsoft has “caught up” again (despite things like Flip 3D being less usable than Expose).
Apple needs to launch a counter-offensive to prove this isn’t so. Hopefully they’ll market the crap out of Leopard.