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Microsoft Hoping for Vista in January
WebHostingGuy writes "Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Vista, would be ready in January. He is also hopeful that the next version of Office will ship in December. The holdup, he says, is due to constant revisions due to beta tester feedback." From the article: "'We've got to get this absolutely right,' Gates said. 'If the feedback from the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay it.' He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as Microsoft."
I bought XP in 2001 and had 5 mostly good years with it. But it was time to move to something better -- and I'm so happy I switch to Mac.
OS X Tiger is awesome and already has everything and more than what Microsoft is promising in Vista. And with Leopard right around the corner, I'm sure I'll get a few more neat features Windows might have 3 or 4 years from now.
Go Apple! Goodbye Microsoft.
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...and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.
Was any girder from Carnegie Steel as flaky as Microsoft Windows? Did any gallon of kerosene from Standard Oil ever behave as wildly as Internet Explorer. Say what you will of Carnegie and Rockefeller, but they practiced quality control.