“PC manufacturers that expected to get their hands on the final version of Windows Vista on Wednesday have to wait a couple more weeks for the OS, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans,” Al Sacco reports for CIO news.
“Microsoft originally targeted Wednesday for Vista’s release to manufacturing, but a last-minute bug that ‘took most of the Vista team by surprise,’ caused an unexpected delay, said Ethan Allen, a quality assurance lead at a Seattle high-tech company that tests its products for Vista,” Sacco reports. “Allen said the Vista team discovered the bug, which ‘would totally crash the system, requiring a complete reinstall,’ in Vista Build 5824 on Friday, Oct. 13.
Sacco reports, “The team is now targeting a new date of Wednesday, Nov. 8, for Vista’s release to manufacturing, Allen said. He also said that the business release of Vista, which Microsoft recently said is track for release next month, ‘will barely make the end of November deadline.'”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Qka” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: We’re amazed that anyone relegated to the Windows Vista team can still muster surprise at discovering a bug.
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I’m no expert, but if that big a problem is found this late– and given that people have any number of odd configurations on their own systems– once Vista’s in the wild, there really does stand a chance for a big mess.
Peterson for President.
All kidding aside…
What is your best guess as to how long it will take for the first virus to appear for Vista?
We can’t include the virus that showed up for the beta…this guess challenge is only for the
official release.
Took them by surprise? Really? A bug in Windows?
I’d say the bug is Vista itself.
ummm….yep…
it’s no fun bashing Microsoft anymore. They’ve shot themselves in the foot so many times they’re gonna topple
Odd. In this interview Ballmer says that Vista is pretty much all ready.
Ballmer touts Vista on CNET news.
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6129528.html?tag=ne.video.6129533
Also sponsored by Microsoft.
Well , squirt my zune! Vista delayed! How can that be? I thought MS’s quality processes were so perfect!.
What is your best guess as to how long it will take for the first virus to appear for Vista?
Given Windows past track record, the unexpected discovery of such a significant bug, I’d give it all of 20 minutes. void(0);
This is gonna be great. After it’s been released and we’ve seen the inevitable TV footage of late night openings/queues round blocks etc., we Mac fans can sit back like kids on Christmas eve in anticipation of the first big shitstorm that will inevitably hit MS over Vista. I can’t wait until they release it!
Wa Wa wa waaaaa.
Re: void(0) in my previous post. Why aren’t the emoticons working?
Friday, October 13th, eh? Triskaidekaphobia, or unusually good luck on the 13th? You decide.
This is going to be fun to watch…MDN is going to need a new, VDN site to track the hilarity of it all.
Is that interviewer in Dupers link above a man or a woman? At first when I saw the face I thought man and then when I saw the boobs I thought woman.
Wow, a bug that will cause the entire machine to completely crash, requiring a reinstall?!?!!? What could be worse than Windows not running on your system? Oh yeah, Windows RUNNING on your system. Bwahahhahahahahaaaaa…
Ok, let’s get our collective punches into MS FISTA so we can go back to discussing more interesting things, like the coming quad-core server. How long until quad-core desktops?
Also, if FISTA has bug so bad that it causes a need for a complete reinstall, I guess that makes Windows it’s own worst virus. How can a company top that just prior to a major release, or any release of any kind for that matter.
Holy cow.!
“last-minute bug that ‘took most of the Vista team by surprise”
Does that mean that the bug *wasn’t* a surprise to some people at Microsoft.
;P
Another day, another Vista delay. What else is new? Must be a slow news day.
“Is that interviewer in Dupers link above a man or a woman? At first when I saw the face I thought man and then when I saw the boobs I thought woman.”
Ina Fried is a transexual. I only find it funny in the sense that a buffoon like Balmer had to refrain from saying or doing anything inappropriate.
There are already viruses out for Vista.
Man or Women???
That must be a man in the midst of a gender transition.
Still waiting on the finances to finish the job.
Creepy!!!
Holy crap, uncle fester and the creepy interviewer.
Fester looks like he might start cracking up at the start of the interview.
I can’t decide who is stranger looking
REINSTALLATION!?
Remember Vista has some VERY strict rules on the number of installations/activations you can do. So even though Microsoft is at fault, you will have to sit on the phone for quite awhile to talk to a rep to report the crash and your need to reinstall and, only after convincing the rep, for them to then make your “activation key” to work again.
Oh and if you have Adobe Creative Suite installed… good luck on the phone with Adobe to have the “legal” install on your computer deactivated so that you can go to the trouble of reintalling CS2 and all its updates on your SUPER Vista computer.
But this is not a “Bug” – it is a feature because we all know that Windows always runs better after a fresh install- thus this is the “Vista Speed Boost” feature.
Man or Women???
Its a guy in drag and it’s the beta for the next Apple advert focusing on Vista in it’s dramatic change of clothes. Apparently this time around its the Empress’s clothes.
Allen said the Vista team discovered the bug, which ‘would totally crash the system, requiring a complete reinstall
So many of my Windows using friends are so used to this that if Vista shipped with this bug, it would have been normal.