“Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company ‘scrambles’ to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed,” David Richards reports for Smarthouse News. “In an effort to meet a deadline of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. The team are also working closely with engineers from the Intel Viiv team. and it is now expected that the next version of Viiv could be delayed to line up with the launch of the consumer version of Vista at the 2007 CES Show in Las Vegas.”
“One of the key components of the consumer version of Vista is the Media Centre code. This will be an optional package in the same way that Microsoft currently sell a Professional and Home version of XP. With Vista there will not be a seperate Media Centre SKU,” Richards reports. “Microsoft has also admitted that it has major problems in it’s Windows division and has has immediatly initiated a total restructure of the division, a move that comes after a costly delay in rolling out its Vista program.”
Full article along with the text of an internal memo written by Kevin Johnson the Co-President of the Windows division here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “mango” for the heads up.]
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Shut the place down and give the money back to the shareholders.
To put it all in easy-to-understand speak:
MICROSOFT ARE IN DEEP SHIT.
Oh My! Happy Friday, indeed. 😀
See what happens when you have a fckin monopoly? People get lazy and get groupthinkish all of over the place.
At least Vista is appropriately named… its something you can see far away but not every really touch or capture.
How appropriate.
I am really amazed at how the news from Redmond seems to get worse every day. What will be next?
ms , the wang of the 21st century
“60-percent of Windows Vista code to be rewritten”
But they can’t decide between Morse or the Alabama Code of Law for sex offenders.
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“Microsoft has pulled programmers
from the highly successful Xbox team . . .”
In fact, Clippy will sport an AK-47 and dust you in a spray of bullets if you don’t heed his instructions. Blood everywhere.
A car that needs to be 60% rebuilt is considered totaled.
If Vista is that big of a mess, the other 40% needs to be rebuilt also. And not in hurry-up fashion either. No product that’s “scrambled” together has any hope of quality.
“Get the console people to fix PCs.”
At MS, the marketing people are getting the console people to help the Windows people fix their OS. Really, could it get <b>any</y> worse?
MS is losing credibility by the minute.
When will the PC industry finally have enough?!?
“Of course Intel would limit processor production and slow Apple up.
WinTel Alliance, got to love working with the devil.”
Not a concern now with AMD kicking Intel’s a** on the PC side. Intel will support Apple if they can sell processors.
Longhorn/Vista, should be renamed Forlorn.
As for the legacy excuse, does it make any sense? Can the legacy systems run Forlorn without a new GPU? Isn’t the point to get people to upgrade? I mean what are those late-adopters going to do? Jump ship to Apple? MS needs to think more like Apple, and drop some of the legacy support that keeps holding them back. Six years for a new OS is ridiculous, and how much better will it be than XP2, anyway?
You got to feel for the people working at Microsoft, many of which probably knew and wanted to rewrite Windows completely long ago. Yet, as usual it is the guys making the obscene levels of income that make the really bad decisions.
And if they had made that decision long ago, MS would probably have a kick ass operating system to offer now instead of all the myriad problems. Oh well.
How about this possibility:
They brought in the XBox team to write the PPC version of Vista to run on the 360. The XBox 360 is the ultimate trojan horse into the livingroom.
Maybe Paul Thurrott said it best when he said Longhorn looked like a “train wreck”.
Paul Thurrott, the Prophet.
Steve Ballmer must go.
Many companies depend upon Windows for thier sales. Hopefully windowws-only software developers will see this as a sign that they’d better diversify rather than being dependent upon MS.
Windows Titanic? That is insulting to the designers of Titanic. Titanic was the best technology of its day and met its fate due to an iceburg. If MS built ships it would sink before it left the harbour.
This is a little off topic and I had to check the original aticle just to be sure, but that is one of the worst written articles I have ever seen. That site needs to fire either the writer or the editor. I have never seen grammer that badly before and have it pass for journalistic writing. I mean, nobody even talks that way. However, concidering the state of tech reporting (or any reporting for that matter), it does not suprise me.
“If MS built ships it would sink before it left the harbour.”
It would probably be incompatible with water.
Imagine the sides of the U.S. Microsail tattoed with millions of disclaimers and incompatibility warnings. With Ballmer at the helm giving the order to destroy the lifeboats (and towels) and Bill clinging to the railing and screaming in his best Kermit voice, “I’m King of the Whirled.” (He had a ghost writer so it didn’t matter if it made sense.)
Microsoft delays Office relaunch
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4840848.stm
Well.
As a fading potential switcher, I think I’m heading back into the switching idea
Some version of Vista will ship iin 2006. If not, many large businesses are going to massively complain and/or file suit. MS has a Software Assurance Program that allows companies to buy software and guarantee all updates for the next three years. They started this in 2003 when it was assumed that a lot of software would be released in the next three years. In that time, there has basically been nothing of significant value released. Office might be pushed back and Vista is on the border. This program is the reason they are pushing so hard to get businesses the Vista update before the end of the year.
It is going to be pathetic when it does come out because it is not going to be anywhere close to ready for mass use.
A major LOL when I saw the headline and read further.
Vista’s going to be the worst MS Windows. Ever. These guys just don’t know how to make it.
the xbox team is probably the only talented group in microsoft with the exception of the MacBU — the “problems” that have been attached to the xbox360 is no more than the “battery issues” tied to the iPod… I am a mac nut, but i must say i was even impressed by the total package that is the 360.
Must be mighty tempting for Apple to license out OS X in the current climate (particularly when PC makers have been banging on their door). Add a fully fledged iWork with Office compatibility and the battle for the enterprise would be on.
Alas I can’t see this happening as long as Apple are opening Apple Stores to flog their own boxes.
MS depends for its future on keeping VISTA compatible with its legacy apps. Yet, at the same it now seems its future is jeopardised because it can’t break away from the legacy and do anything new.
Not a nice position to be in.
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer, fat, bald, person. Don’t fire him. Keep him roped to the wheel until we watch his fat face going under the water shouting “I love thiiisss companeeeee. Developers, developers, developgphphhhuuurrrrr…….”