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Heads Roll As Microsoft Misses Vista Target

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-pressure-is-on dept.

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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  1. How many will use Vista? by gbulmash · · Score: 1, Troll
    With Microsoft's fame for vaporware, especially when it's come to new releases of Windows, I'd think they'd promote whomever was responsible for Vista missing its ship dates. I mean, the only people shocked by the announcement that Vista would miss its ship date were the vendors who had to plan around the dates as if Microsoft actually meant them.

    An interesting part of the article is that HP said that if Microsoft doesn't have Vista locked down by August, it will hurt their holiday sales (because they sell so much through retail channels). IIRC, HP has been a big supporter of Linux on the server side of their business. Maybe, after being f'ed over by Microsoft for the umpteenth time, they'll get more serious about consumer-focused Linux.

    I'm running XP now, but if I can help it, I will never use Vista. The next time I upgrade hardware, I'm either going 100% Linux with a virtualized XP for the applications I just can't leave behind, or I'm switching to Mac on Intel with an XP dual boot for the applications I just can't leave behind.

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  2. Holiday season? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why would the holiday season be a factor for Vista? I don't think I hate anyone enough to give them a first-gen OS - any first-gen OS - as a gift.

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  3. Why exactly do I need Vista? by Catbeller · · Score: 1, Troll

    I run Win2000. It doesn't phone home, doesn't copy control my media, doesn't crash, doesn't monitor my hardware with a view to shutting off my OS if it thinks I changed too many pieces of hardware. It DOES run everything in the Windows world I need to run. Oh, yes, I can make copies of the install disk. It's solid as a rock. And, oh yeah, it doesn't cost me a thing.

    And I need Vista why?

    If I'm forced to use XP or Vista, I'll switch to Xandros or something similar in less than four hours. I assume the corporate people have their data held hostage, so they will comply with the extortion, but I don't have to.