“A lot of controversy has sprung up lately about when Vista is likely to ship. The most recent dates given by Microsoft are November this year for the business version and January 2007 for the home version. The brouhaha centers around management’s recent equivocal statements regarding these dates. At the late-July annual Financial Analysts Meeting in Redmond, the Kevin Johnson, the President of the Platforms and Services Division, said, ‘We’ll ship when it’s ready.’ This sort of statement is not at all reassuring. In fact, you could almost make a rule: if a top manager of a Fortune 50 company says he’s “almost sure” of something, that means it’s not going to happen,” Roger Kay writes for Technology Pundits.
“So, from the eagle’s eye view, I’d say the company is going to miss the dates. But let’s take a look from the snail’s eye view,” Kay writes.
Kay writes, “I’ve been testing Vista betas as they’ve come out. I’ve got the most recent, Build 5472, right here at my desk, firing away on an adjacent system. It’s running a slide show and playing music at the same time and doing a fine job. True, a couple of functions crashed when I first ran them (the slide show, the clock settings), but I’m used to these sort of mild interruptions and went right ahead (after checking the status of the Task Manager by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del) and rebooted them with no great harm. Laugh if you will, Macheads, this system is almost ready for prime time.” Then Vista went all to hell on Kay prompting him to write, “Never in history has a Microsoft operating system been this buggy this late in the game.”
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MacDailyNews Take: We’re not laughing that Windows crashes, we’re incredulous that you’re so “used to these sort of mild interruptions” that we expect to be extremely rare and don’t consider to be “mild.” Why forgive and apologize for Microsoft? You paid them money and they sold you something most of us consider to be crap; something that over the years has beaten you down into accepting substandard quality. Mac users have much higher expectations than Windows sufferers.
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