blogs.msdn.com — A blog entry from manager of developer teams at Microsoft. The author cites "the code is too complicated," "poor organizational decision-making," and "ignorant as to a proper estimation of software schedules" as just a few of the reasons the release date of Windows Vista continues to be pushed back.
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xionerJun 15, 2006
Curses, I went to post this 40 minutes after you did! Guess I should start waking up earlier ;-)
mobilechimpJun 15, 2006
I just installed dapper and it's great. Someone posted a wifi howto on digg last week that really helped.Vista looks cool, but what's the point of all the extra stuff if the OS isn't built well enough to use?
haxx4Jun 15, 2006
Making the front page is something to be proud of (if your article is legitimate tech news).
satertekJun 15, 2006
"Making the front page is something to be proud of (if your article is legitimate tech news)."Yes, because so much time and effort is put into copying and pasting a URL...
docdebJun 16, 2006
It also maybe a situation of doomed by their own success. With MS's success in the corporate software market comes the pressure not to break the applications that many large corporations depend upon. Any OS that would break thousands of custom apps would be shot down in an instant. It surprises me that MS did not learn anything from Apple's journey from 68xx-->PPC-->>Intel architecture and the OS9-->OSX transition. At some point in time a company has to see the path ahead, lay out a plan to get there and often drag everyone else kicking and screaming with them. Some foresight could have resulted in a road map to a new OS with a transition strategy to make it as painless as possible. Perhaps the problem was and is too many middle managers with vested interests in the status quo.
titanassJun 16, 2006
The Microsoft way == greed tech (which is useful and universally adopted)The GNU way == good tech (which is at least 10 years behind windows technologically)I hate windows and MS as much as the next guy and maybe more being a former employee but there is just no other OS that compares both OSX and Linux pale in comparison to XP.
lobsterJun 16, 2006
I am a penguin but I like XP (rarely use it). I tried Vista. 2 1/2 days to download (from the desisted bit torrent). I wanted to be impressed. I was planning to write - "Why I returned to Windows". I could use it for a year - sure why not. However . . . despite the speech recognition and the recognition of my USB headset (which PCLinuxOS also did and Suse) and the luvvly DHCP direct to Redmond connection - I was underwhelmed. As this report says it is delayed because it is grinding to a kludge-stop.There is a chance. A radical solution. Buy Red Hat and put a Vista front end on it. Sure you go Open Source BUT you have the hardware ready contracts . . .Advice. Sell MS Stock now - even Bill Gates is leaving the sinking ship . . . To be honest I do not think Vista can ship - ever. It is a lose-lose situation. Well Tux - he OK . . .OK Penguins - fish all 'round.
deadbabyJun 16, 2006
It took me about 15 minutes to figure out how to map a network drive in Vista Beta 2 and I've been using Windows for almost 15 years. I can't even imagine how the average user is going to deal with this mess.
verusexJun 17, 2006
If this is the biggest software development of all time something is very wrong with the product spec or the development team. This is just an OS it is not supposed to be GOD.