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Analysts Split Over Vista Launch Date
An anonymous reader writes "A ZDNet report details comments by analysts on the upcoming release of Microsoft's newest operating system. Vista is currently scheduled to be released to businesses next month, and to consumers in January of next year. Not everyone on the sidelines agrees that the company will make that deadline, though. Reservations seem mostly to center around legal and political issues, rather than any concrete technical problems." From the article: " A delay for Vista now would be convenient for Microsoft, Gartner analyst David Mitchell-Smith argued, because 'when people start complaining about the delay, Microsoft can reasonably say 'don't blame us' and point the finger at the EC.' ... Mitchell-Smith also noted that Microsoft wants to avoid further litigation, as it is already facing legal action by Symantec and Adobe Systems."
Agreed. But maybe I agree because of some Microsoft code:
/* code fork from DOS 3.10 */
/* printf("Welcome to MSDOS 3.11"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 1.0"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 2.0"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.1"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 3.11"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 95"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 3.0"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 3.51"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 98"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows CE"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows Me"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows NT 4.0"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 2000"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows XP"); */
/* printf("Welcome to Windows 2003"); */
// next 40 billion
printf("Welcome to Windows Vista");
Yawn. Maybe the the next version will be Hasta or LA. Then like CE + ME + NT it will add up to something like CEMENT.
Seriously, who the fuck do they think they are?
A company trying to deliver product improvements *that their customers want* but the law says they can't.