Bug Pushes Vista Out to November 8th

IntelliAdmin writes "Microsoft originally targeted October 25th for Vista's release to manufacturing, but a last-minute bug that 'took most of the Vista team by surprise' has caused an unexpected delay, said Ethan Allen, a quality assurance lead at a Seattle high-tech company that tests its products for Vista. Allen said the Vista team discovered the bug, which 'would totally crash the system, requiring a complete reinstall'. Vista now has a new RTM date of November 8th" A reader wrote in to point out this story originated with Paul Thurrott.

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[eneville]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=printArticleBasic&articleId=9004437

Re:Re-install?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the Thurrott link...

But a catastrophic problem with the build destroyed any systems that upgraded from Windows XP, requiring complete reinstallations.

Actually it seems to be a bug in the upgrade routine of the installer, not in the system itself

PatchGuard hack

[Cally]

Authentium already broke Patch Guard and hooked the Vista kernel. That pretty much destroys 50% of the unbreakable new security model, as far as I can tell. Microsoft're quoted in that Reg story as saying they'll patch it, but are they holding RTM for that? If not, the launch will be as big a farce as the development process to date...

CS 101

[955301]

Just starting out in software? Here's a tip - If your release date is affected by a single bug, your date is too close to the end of qa test. Your codebase should be untouched for a few days after QA before it can be declared suitable for consumption.

Glad I just switched to mac, even though it took a CompUSA store closing in Roswell, GA to get me to fork the cash out. Even a 30% discount was painful. Since then I've had two crashes caused by alpha software, but nothing from release quality stuff.

Re:One small issue

[afidel]

Read The mythical man-month, throwing more bodies at the problem will not get is solved faster, and in fact will often slow it down.

Re:Vista Release

[kimvette]

Someone has no sense of humor and threw away mod points marking that troll. To that I ask: why?

Some of us found it funny. I found it hilarious.

That you do not find it funny or work for Microsoft and feel insulted does not mean it's a troll.

Reserve your troll and flamebait mods for racist bullshit posts. Spend mod points modding up a really insightful or at least well-written-even-if-wrong post elsewhere. Like the guideline says, focus on modding up, not down, nitwit.