Heads Roll As Microsoft Misses Vista Target

A reader writes: "Business version is on time, but the company won't make the key holiday consumer sales season. After another delay in the release of its Windows Vista operating system, Microsoft last week put a new executive in charge of future Windows projects and replaced several other managers. The changes are designed to better align Microsoft's desktop and Internet software teams and get products to market faster." There's also a NY Times piece that discusses why Windows has been so slow (to come out). Worth the reading.

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Same claims made for 95, 98, NT, Win2K, XP...

[dpbsmith]

...every time Microsoft says "this is a completely new operating system." (I forget exactly how they worded the claims, but they managed to give a strong impression that they were claiming that MS-DOS was not part of Windows 95... just like Clinton gave the impression he was saying he did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky, or like Bush gave the impression he was saying Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11).

Every time they say that the new OS is secure.

Every time they say that the new OS is easy to use and doesn't crash.

It's like Lucy telling Charlie Brown that she's going to let him kick the football this time. She never does, and he never seems to learn.

Hmm... Lucy... Charlie Brown... what we need is a Linus.