Vista Delay - CNET's Charles Cooper's Take

[Panopticon]

"Vista delay is back to the future for Redmond
http://news.com.com/2102-1016_3-6052365....util.print

"Recall that last year Microsoft dropped several important features in order to not slow down the shipment plans. Microsoft even removed WinFS, a key piece of Longhorn, so that PC makers could plan around a holiday release."

"Beyond the obvious blow to its reputation, Microsoft's inability to tame Windows--always a notoriously hairy coding project--puts the company on the defensive at the worst possible juncture. Time was when Microsoft could get away with a product slip, shrug its shoulders and promise a "new and improved" version sometime soon. But that was pre-Internet, pre-Linux and pre-Google; 2006 is not 1996, and Microsoft's customers have other alternatives."
*Charles Cooper is the executive editor of commentary at CNET News.com.*



Interesting read.

[davester]

They are FUBAR!!! Their OS is an ungodly nightmare of a security problem, internet explorer is years behind the competition and they have nothing to show us. The only reason they stay in business is inertia. I am a bi-OS person. During the day I'm completely Windows-dependent and at home I'm a mac guy. Let me tell you, the Windows guy hopes that micro$oft would die!

[ztirffritz]

davester, I'm just like you, except that I'm tri-OS...Mac and Linux at home. I'm studying linux as fast as I can because I'm pretty sure that given the choice between Apple and Linux the people in charge will scratch their heads (because they only know Windows) then say "Which costs less?" Done deal. I prefer Macs, and feel the quality and performance are worth the price premium, but not everyone will see it that way. Truth be told, a Mac mini doesn't cost much more than a bare-bones PC anymore and would work just fine. If "they" would just let me use Free Open Source software the Mac would probably compare much better to Linux.

Microsoft's aim is impressive...considering they're shooting their own foot from about .5m away. They stripped everything that was useful from Longhorn so that the ship date would be concrete, then dressed up XP and called it Vista. Then they announce they are going to miss the ship date any way. Incredible. They promise that they'll release the dropped features later for both Vista and XP. My question then is, why bother upgrading to Vista if they are going to add the useful bits to XP as well as Vista?

[macaroo]

An early Christmas present for Steve Jobs and Apple: OSX 10.5

[kap]

davester Wrote:
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> Let me tell you, the Windows
> guy hopes that micro$oft would die!

No way! Windows' ungodly nightmare security is job security for many especially the programmers and the tech support folks!

Kap

[Racer X]

Windoes users suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome. Plain and simple

[Racer X]

kap Wrote:
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> davester Wrote:
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> > Let me tell you, the Windows
> > guy hopes that micro$oft would die!
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> No way! Windows' ungodly nightmare security is job
> security for many especially the programmers and
> the tech support folks!
>
> Kap
>
>
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> Einstein is my name


A lot of oversized Sissy-driven SUV's monthly payments depend on M$ having crappy software.