“Microsoft Corp.’s long-awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said on Tuesday,’ Reuters reports. “The research note, released to clients on Monday, said the new Windows Vista operating system is too complex to be able to meet Microsoft’s targeted November release for volume license customers and January launch for retail consumers.”
“Gartner targets a Windows Vista release in the April-June quarter of 2007, nine to 12 months after Microsoft conducts a second major test, or ‘beta,’ release for Vista during the current quarter. ‘Microsoft still wants to get it out as soon as possible, but slipping from January to March is nowhere near as bad as slipping from shipping before the holidays to after the holidays,’ a group of Gartner analysts wrote in the report,” Reuters reports. “A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company disagreed with the Gartner report and it was still on track to meet its launch dates.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Long-awaited? By whom, exactly, besides the Windows box assemblers? Is anybody else really waiting with bated breath for Windows XP SP3 with Microsoft’s twisted idea of what they think Mac OS X’s UI looks like? This is no longer just a “train wreck.” This is two freight trains in a head-on collision sandwiching a school bus next to a seaway while an out-of-control ocean liner plows over all three as jet planes continually dive bomb into the carnage. All the while, a strange, bald, fat monkey boy blissfully dances nearby as it all burns. Look up “implosion” and you get a satellite photo of Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, WA.
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He said he didn’t know any company that uses Macs routinely. I told him Genentech does. I think he was surprised at that.
Earthlink does too, as well as many of the major Japanese banks.
Vista is going to actually ship someday?
You know, I hate everything about Microsoft, but what is worse is the hypocrisy this site deals out.
First of all, this article, if you even bother to click the link and read it, is nothing more than a speculation from a research company. The folks at Microsoft deny it, and say they are still on track for January. I suspect that they would know more about it than one of these self-important analysts.
Meanwhile you have this same site bashing writers who write speculative works defaming the Mac platform as not being ‘real journalism’, and spreading FUD. But is that not exactly what this piece is?
Personally, I feel Windows has enough weaknesses vs Apple’s innumerable strengths that we needed plant half-truths to get our point across. Let’s not stoop to their level, ok?
Leonard?????????
“What if Leonard gets out first,”
When is there going to be a Squiggy OS?
I rub Jooop all over my body.
http://jooop.blogspot.com/
lika da engliish, talk good man.
Meep!
http://www.chappelletheory.com/
What an embarrassment.
Next steps for Microsoft:
Change the code name “Longhorn” to “Longgone”.
And instead of calling it “Windows Vista”, just call it “Windows Astalavista”.
That will do it !!!
I foresee, I foresee… Mac OS XI before Windows Astalavista.
Word F.U.B.A.R. word
Sad and funny, but put this in perspective. Microsoft, even factoring in this clusterf**k of a project that has consumed billions, is still worth $245 Billion as of this afternoon.
Apple still has some catching up to do.
OS X Nimoy would tap into a loyal audience.
I have a strong feeling that OS X Tabby will be in development before Vista ships. All PC games and vertical business apps will be ported to the Mac as well by then. William Hung will have perfect pitch by then.
F.U.B.A.R. posted a comment that said bad things about MDN, and it seems to have been deleted.
He pointed out that MDN says bad things about FUD but that they are propogating it on this site. They barely mentioning that this article is only an analysts take on when VISTA will be released, and that Microsoft still claims January 07 will be the date.
I say vista won’t be released until 2011… Am I going to get a headline article because of that?
I hope MDN doesn’t delete this too.
Windows Vista ship dates can slip for months, years even, and it makes no difference because 90% of computers run Windows so Vista will automatically sell on almost every new computer whenever it’s released.
I’d actually prefer MS not start their next OS from scratch. It gives Apple more time to make their products more biz or IT-friendly.
“What if Leonard gets out first, then Vista copies the best parts? Won’t that hurt Apple?”
They could do that, but it wouldn’t hurt Apple because by the time they’d get their copy out, Apple will be on osXV. The proof is that they’re still trying to copy os10.2 with bits and pieces of os10.3 tossed in. They’ve given up on copying the functionality of os10.4… and you’re worrired about them copying os10.5 before we get to os15.0?
Not to worry. Somethings never change.
I feel like a big dummy… Fubar didn’t say that, Willie G did. It is still up, I just couldn’t refind it because I thought it came from FUBAR. I apologize to MDN. Still though, this article is misrepresentative.
My Greatest Apologies
Any bets on whether Vista will slip again?
Guys…guys…WWDC is later this year….M$ has to wait longer to copy them…think it was coincidence that WWDC was moved back???
I’m sure it will, Davidlow. But next time it will be a Freudian slip.
Oh that is what they said 2 years ago that Vista would SLIP by the end of 2005 not SHIP
It amazes me that in the time that Microsoft has been talking about and working on Vista, Apple converted from OS 9 to OSX and then to the Intel chip – Wow they really can’t get anything done in Redmond.
Isn’t a Vista a view of something far away?
We should all start calling it Window’s FUBAR, very funny and apt.
MW “months” as in how months behind schedule FUBAR sorry Vista is?
Hey, Ballmer, what’s a real Windows operating system. Never seen one, yet.
Steve’s grand plan of ambarassing & humiliating gate’s microshit is working great all along, it starts unfolding to the tech world & public, esp. those poor pc heads been busy patching up their boxes while desperately longing for a better windows os…[hint to you guys: do yourselves a big favor & head here immediately for a better life : ]http://www.apple.com/osx] ).
We’ve hardly heard anything about Leopard yet, and that’s by design, as Steve once put it “we want to keep them guessing” . no one is actually worrying or expecting Apple will miss it’s ship date unless youre the stupid Enderle. I bet those coders at microshit are busy trying their asses off to make Windows SP3 windows move as swifly as OS X Exposé while adding to them as much transparent & glass look, what else hmm, oh of course they’re copying Spotlight & Dashboard among other cool features from OS X… , funny as Steve put it, “they can’t even copy fast enough”.
poor microshit!
It just keeps getting better all the time.
Did I mention DELL SUCKS!