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Flaw Delays Shipment Of New 'Canterwood' Pentium 4
bigal3du writes "Hardware-Unlimited has posted new information from Intel that they will be delaying the shipment of the new Pentium 4 3Ghz with an 800Mhz FSB. An Intel spokesman contacted Hardware-Unlimited early this morning to let the publication know that performance "anomolies" have been discovered, at the last minute, in validation testing and the processor will be temporarily delayed for shipment. Full details on Hardware-Unlimited.com Forums..." ninenet points to this PC Magazine article which explains the things that characterize the new chip and also mentions the delay.
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Well, seeing as I'm a professional software developer, I think I've been part of a development process before.
I was not in any way saying that only perfect software/hardware should be released. What I plainly said was that Intel did the right thing by delaying a product launch after finding a flaw. Regardless of the seriousness of this flaw, instead of sending the product out with a minor/medium/major flaw, they decided to fix it first, then ship the product.
I'm sorry, but last time I checked, Microsoft was notorious - in the opinion of its own employees, even - of sending out half-baked products and using their customer base to test the software.
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From the accusitory nature of your post, it sounds like the real issue here is that you work for Microsoft, and know for a fact that my little slight on MS is completely valid, and I have in some way bruised your fragile, pathetically weak ego. Well, I'm sorry if your company can't get their product launches right the first time - maybe if instead of launching half-baked, insecure products, you actually tested them thoroughly first, your company wouldn't have such a crappy reputation. Perhaps getting sued by the US Government has finally straightened MS out to their constant product release problems? Or, maybe Mr. Gates' little memo did the trick?