“More delays to the release schedule for Windows Vista revealed Friday suggest that problems with shipping the OS may be broader than Microsoft has admitted,” Elizabeth Montalbano reports for Macworld UK. “Beta testers familiar with Microsoft’s plans to release test versions of the OS said that although Microsoft has said Vista development has been delayed a few weeks, the date the OS will be released to manufacturers has been pushed back two months.”
“In a hastily scheduled conference call Tuesday, Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services division announced that the consumer versions of Vista would not ship on PCs until January 2007, though business customers will have access to Vista before the end of the year through the volume licensing channel. This means Microsoft and its hardware partners will miss selling Vista PCs during the busy holiday shopping season in the US between late November and late December,” Montalbano reports. “Allchin characterised the delay in development as ‘a few weeks’ on Tuesday’s call. But a two-month change in the RTM of the product clearly suggests development is off track by more than that. Moreover, analysts said missing its target date for the holiday season gives Microsoft breathing room to push back Vista’s release even further into 2007. PC sales are typically slower in the first and second quarters of the year, said Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research. ‘Microsoft missed the holidays, so January might as well be July,’ he said.”
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With all the talk about Vista’s need for backward compatiablity, and different versions, I’m suprised they don’t come up with a version that is sans the legacy. Vista lite! Then take and build a new OS around that as time goes on, leaving the old systems behind after about 5 years. (Apple is doing this but after, oh say 7-10 years, because the Mac’s last longer)
50 million + lines of code in Vista?
At some point, it will develop a conscience. Rise up against its arrogant masters and then end its own shameful, miserable existence in a blinding hailstorm of 1s and 0s. (Helpful hint: Stay out of Best Buy that day.)
Official release date: The 32nd of Septober
Oh how sad for MS. As noted the business users are not going to be the first to try Vista as upgrades. Even when available they will likely order new PCs with XP to avoid problems.
Forget comparisons to 10.5 Leopard. I think 10.6 or 10.7 will be out before Vista.
radiomoscow:
I’m not the best at math, but…
If I did this right, 60% of 50 million is 30 million.
That’s 30,000,000 lines of code over the next 9 months (to get it out by Jan. 1, or so).
If my calculations are correct, there are only 23,328,000 seconds (!) in 9 months (at 30 days each).
Give a little lee-way for months with 31 days, plus they still have the rest of March, so…
1 line of code each and every second until next year.
If it were any other company, I would say no way. But this is MicroSoft (they aren’t exactly burdened by innovation.
If Gates reads the copy of OS X out loud (Puma, of course!) and Ballmer types his chubby little fingers off…
Seems very “do-able” to me.
~M
It’s not the code, bad as any mç code is; it’s what the code does. They made an os so full of shit, so inter-and-extraconnected that it’s unusable, undebuggable, unsecurable and unreliable due to cascading consequences. They wanted it to do this, that, that-and-this, this-and-that-and-more-than-that-or-this and the other thing that in the end it couldn’t do anything at all.
When monkey boy talks about innovation working its way down the pipeline, he’s talkin’ about that new tropical fruit he experimented with for breakfast … two days ago. And it’s still stuck up his pipeline. Shit sticks. Bad shit sticks bad. Now…you see…that just can’t happen to the real Steve. Real artists shit … or was that “ship”?
1 line of code each and every second until next year
or one line of code every 17 minutes if you had a thousand coders hacking away at it
If you’re a business customer, you really have no choice! You and your IT department threw in with Microsoft so you’re stuck unless you want to take a really hard stock hit by announcing a multi-million dollar IT reconfiguration.
As long as they “ship” this year, that’s all they need. Many of these corporate customers will be “buying” something they don’t plan on installing until after several months of testing with their current applications.
Windows: Where would you like to go today?
Linux: Where would you like to be tomorrow?
Macintosh: Are you guys coming or what?
July. 2011.
Vista: “The Operating System of The Future”
This is a chance for Apple to embarrass Microsoft if Leopard comes out first, and has some killer features. Tiger was an awesome leap ahead, but Microsoft has been able to say that Vista would “kinda sorta” have everything that Tiger introduced. I can’t see that happening with Leopard’s features, not unless Microsoft delays Vista for another year.
So Microsoft could be releasing an OS that won’t even catch up with Apple.
Buena
I’ve seen the part I and II but not sure how many of you have seen part II…
Why they are really delaying Vista
that’s part III