“Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it will yank yet another feature from Windows Vista, this time PC-to-PC Sync, a P2P-based technology for keeping files up-to-date on multiple machines. ‘While PC-to-PC Sync is a great feature that improves productivity and collaboration we don’t have it at the quality level our customers demand,’ a company spokesperson said in an e-mail. ‘As a result the decision was made to remove it from Windows Vista,'” Gregg Keizer reports for TechWeb News.
“The departure of PC-to-PC Sync comes just days after Microsoft said it was pulling other features from Office 2007 and letting computer makers install the OS sans the company’s new XPS electronic document format, all under pressure from Adobe,” Keizer reports. “The spokesperson also said that PC-to-PC Sync would be the last feature to be dropped from Vista, and that it hoped to provide it in some fashion down the road.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mikey” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: “Quality level our customers demand?” So, when did Microsoft hire Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf as a company spokesperson? Anyway, just when you thought the ineptitude couldn’t get any worse… Hey, let’s see if we can all come up with a list of all the promised features that Microsoft has gutted from Windows XP SP3, er… Vista. We’ll start: WinFS…
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we don’t have it at the quality level our customers demand. […]As a result the decision was made to remove it from Windows Vista.
Redmond, just be happy you do not sell to Apple users: we would have required you to remove the entire OS!
“While PC-to-PC Sync is a great feature that improves productivity and collaboration we don’t have it at the quality level our customers demand,”
Your customers demand quality?!?!? That’s a headline all by itself.
And if they keep on removing features even calling it Windows XP SP3 would too much. Vista is becoming more and more just a modded Windows XP SP2.
MDN “thirty” as in if we carefully look at it, 30 disappeared features should be easily accounted for by the time modded XP SP2 is released.
EFI bios was removed
“we don’t have it at the quality level our customers demand”
OMG, that is really bad because they have very low standards. Full of bugs wouldn’t be bad enough nor would causing the computer to crash. Must actually catch the computer on fire or something…
the quality level our customers demand . . . . . . . fookin hell, the funniest thing I’ve read.
MDN word . . works, as in, well you know that anyway.
The spokesperson also said that PC-to-PC Sync would be the last feature to be dropped from Vista….
Wonder if their nose started to elongate when they made this ridiculous statement?
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DAMMIT.
If it was actually in Vista, Apple might’ve dropped the price of .Mac.
The Windows Powershell (whatever it’s called – the command line interface) has been taken out of Vista.
Peace.
Sadly, I suspect until they drop solitare & minesweeper the average Windows user won’t care.
paraphasing Orwell: (customer) ignorance is (Microsoft’s) strength
,Mac sync still sucks. Apple is constantly mucking around with .Mac mail, sync, backup, etc. If they pro-rated my .Mac renewal based upon unavailability they would owe me money.
I guess they couldn’t perfect a new version of a dialog box showing an animation of a piece of paper flying from one folder to another, like older Windows.
RE the XPS file format thing… Can someone explain why Adobe aren’t making similar moves on Apple for their integration of pdf at the system level? Not trolling – just curious…
If they drop ALL of the planned features they can ship Vista early!
Listen, do you want safe Windows or connected Windows – You have to choose you know.
Don’t forget they took out the Kitchen Sync
Chris said:
“If they drop ALL of the planned features they can ship Vista early!”
Well, no they couldn’t. that would have been three years ago. LOL!
MDN MW=since: how long since the last new system?
Remember MS stated they had to re-write 50 million lines of code inorder to get Vista out the door by Feb 2007. They won’t have to rewrite now, just keep dropping stuff and they will make it soon.
Vista: The “Operation Iraqi Freedom” of the tech industry.
I wish Macs had that feature. What are we gloating about?
The need to coordinate with super-slow, often unreachable .Mac sync servers in order to synchronize a desktop and laptop in my own apartment is silly. This should be a rendezvous… I mean “bonjour’ feature. Of course, that might eat into Apple’s .Mac subscriber justification.
If Macintosh were not the only really viable alternative to Microsoft crud–their big saving grace–they would be wearing the “evil empire” mantle as well.
The hits just keep on coming®.
Dumb asses!
MDN Magic Word: Built. When Winblows XP3 is finally built, will any “new” features be left?
all you people acting like you actually read the whole article didn’t… because MDN’s link to it is broken!
… One more thing®
Rock on Steve!
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Maybe Apple Should Take Notes:
“.Mac sync still sucks. Apple is constantly mucking around with .Mac mail, sync, backup, etc. If they pro-rated my .Mac renewal based upon unavailability they would owe me money.”
If PC-to-PC Sync was as bad as .Mac, as you contend, rest assured it would have been included in Vista. Because PC-to-PC Sync is not included suggests that, according to your standards of excellence, Microsoft cannot even design something as lame as .Mac . This is hardly a rousing endorsement of the programming acumen at Microsoft.
At the rate Microsoft is deleting features from Vista that do not meet Microsoft’s “standards of quality” it seems that Vista will be nothing more than a minor update to XP rather than the breakthrough OS promised a decade ago.
Another thing, if .Mac is a bad as you claim why haven’t you demanded Apple to prorate your purchase and stop using the product altogether?
“The spokesperson also said that PC-to-PC Sync would be the last feature to be dropped from Vista”
But what he failed to mention was that PC-to-PC Sync was the LAST new feature left!
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