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Vista Could Ship Earlier Than Expected
UltimaGuy writes "With speculation of a ship date for Windows Vista ranging in the second part of 2006, word has surprisingly surfaced that it can be expected much earlier. BusinessWeek has received a copy of the internal blog of Chris Jones, who is a top Windows executive. The blog states that the code for Windows Vista will be completed by August 31, giving Microsoft the opportunity to place Vista on PCs for the 2006 Christmas season."
Just in time for Santa, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy..............
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a top Realm employee has revealed that the first copy of DukeNukem Forever will be posted with Vista...
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SO they take the product that has had tons of problems and MOVE UP the release date? Wow. . . I hope its perfect. No that a few months will make a difference at this point. . .
So.. this super hyped version of the next generation of Windows has gradually had all of its most attractive features stripped out of it just for the sake of getting it out of the door quickly. So this means that its going to be yet another interim OS, and the NEXT version of Windows is going to be the one that you really want.
We're just going to be left with a shadow of the OS we were all hoping for - and purely so that Microsoft can say that they have an OS that looks just as pretty as MacOS X. Other than that, there have been absolutely no stand out or interesting additions that I can see.
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August 31, 2006. Christmas Season 2006. All of these things put it in the second half of 2006. How is this "much sooner" than the second half of 2006?
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Yeah, that's some accomplishment, beating some artifical ship date by a few months... when it's years late and has been gutted of its most-touted features so it could see daylight in this decade.
NOT!
Am I missing something obvious, or is "Christmas 2006" actually later than "Second half 2006."
At the very least they seem to be too close together to say it is shipping "much" earlier.
Or else you might have to have some string on hand for -
Oh, wait. Wrong Microsoft product. My bad.
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Back when MS was shipping a new OS version every 18 months or so, I think they delivered a product earlier than originally planned at least once. It might have been Windows 98.
Getting Vista installed on the fall OEM systems is probably their number 1 goal (quality and features be damned). They can always start taking out the really buggy stuff during the summer.
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And one or all of him, apparently, has moderator points, and is modding himself up.
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Oh give me a break. Code complete. this thing will sing through QA. I'm telling you, Windows Vista will be the most perfect work of man since the Septuagint translation, and those guys had the advantage of only a 72-person dev team!
There will be no bugs or security problems. And if there are any, well Microsoft can always postpone Christmas. They've done it before, haven't they?
obviously the articals' release date was later then expected, maybe someone wanted to ensure the quality of the information presented... which i cant say is true for the subject at hand ...
Mr Anonymous Coward, your "member number" also appears to be convienently close to the previous comments, are you involved with this conspiracy?
*Every* consumer-products company MUST have something NEW ready for Christmas (aka. peak sales period).
If M$ *cannot* deliver Vista by September 1st, hardware vendors won't be able to ship their PCs with Vista on Christmas. In this case, I bet they will postpone their shipping date to late-January / mid-February 2006.
As soon Vista is released, PCs with XP pre-installed will be sold at discount. M$ can't "punish" their customers (OEM, not end users) on their peak sales period:
$peak_sales = $christmas ;
big_profit ($christmas) unless ( ( $peak_sales == $discount ) || failed_business_model ) ;
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Vista was "expected" about, what - 4 years ago? "Earlier than expected", my ass!
the working name of Service Pack 3? :-)
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Which of the 7 different versions will ship first ?
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I mean, that's worse than getting a pair of socks.
I can add the date to my calendar of events to be ignored. I suspect I will continue using XP until they stop supporting it. Vista does not impress me at first blush.
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The vendors will OEM it, and if this past Black Friday shopping frenzy is an indication, people will be lining up to get it, *because* of the hardware deals that will be wrapped around it.
With that said, all new major releases of windows since at least 95 have had brisk sales by disk at release time, that lasts a month or so (whatever) then slows down. I would imagine this will be similar.
It also depends on pricing, MS can afford to drop prices and still make a lot of profit. As the software costs approach or exceed the hardware costs, they will be forced to do this I think. people might be in the unusual situation of being in the same store staring at 200$ complete systems with OS installed, then staring at a set of disks for 200$ with the same OS. This will cause a few "hmmm, WTF??" moments.
Whenever Microsoft advances a delivery date, they usually remove a couple of promised features.
I thought they'd already cancelled most of the features preannounced for Vista.
What features are left to remove?
"Oh, we've found that our customers are asking for the same look and feel of Windows XP so we've decided to keep the graphic design and UI the same..."
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I worked with MS for a while, and their project managers use the milestone phrase "code complete" to mean that it's just testing and QA from there (meaning, of course, many many fixes and revs will be introduced into the code after this). So, assuming Chris Jones' comment about being Vista code being "complete" by Aug 2006 was referring to being "code complete," it doesn't say much about when Vista will ship--it just says when non-QA driven changes will no longer be able to get into the codebase past this date.
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Code complete August 2006?
Shipped October 2006?
Quality assurance testing begins early 2007?
Microsoft ends support early 2014?
Last bug patched early 2014?
Yup, par for the course for Windows 2005.
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