Windows Vista Not Due Til 1/2007

[MOVIEGEEK]

I guess MS is still working out the bugs....or is that redundant?
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BF8207BCD%2D809E%2D4572%2DABC4...eid=elnk&dist=

[Faustus]

Its ok. Not a transition period I'm looking forward to anyway. I'd hate to have to take all the vista calls at the same time as the Christmas rush calls.

[unclebud]

No biggie.
I won't be getting it until my next computer, probably late next year. I'll be fun just to sit back and watch all the fuss with patches and updates that come out for it in the first year.

[ROF]

Hopefully they'll surprise us with a chistmas present.

[TBoneit]

Ha!, Beat me to it, I just saw it crawling across the screen on BBC World News.

My take was that they didn't want to release into the Christmas selling season. I'm guessing that Microsoft felt that people would stop buying new computers that had XP on them and only buy if equipped with Vista.

Pressure from manufacturers to eaithe release way before Christmas or After the Holiday buying season.

Anybody notice that IE7 Beta is available for download?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/default.mspx

Says released March 20th

[naturalzinc]

Hopefully they'll surprise us with a chistmas present.

ha hahaah, yea right, M$ is nvr early w/ a release, you should know better than that

[paulw]

I wonder if all the Lemmings will que up at midnite to buy the latest and greatest..??

[waheed]

I'm guessing that Microsoft felt that people would stop buying new computers that had XP on them and only buy if equipped with Vista.

I was thinking the same thing.

Anyway, its best to release a OS with all the bugs fixed than release it early with bugs. I may not switch to Vista when its first out anyway. I going to wait until I see what problems there are with Vista, any compatibility issues etc. Thats what I did with Windows XP before switching.

[TBoneit]

As waheed said I also waited to put XP on my own personal computers at home and work for a couple of months to see what happened and for MS to have patches for security problems. This was despite selling it on computers to those customers that wanted it.

The other reason to delay was to give me time to be sure I had all the data and programs lined up to re-install after a clean Xp install. And backup to DVD or another drive any data I wanted to keep. In the end I just bought another drive and used it as the XP install drive.

[dcsos]

"We won't compromise on product quality, and we needed just a few more weeks," James Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's Windows division

Yet the corporate client still get the full build this NOVEMBER....
What is wrong with this picture?

also

Some analysts were surprised that a few weeks' delay could be predicted so early in the year.

Microsoft knows.. they've done the major reseearch & development on "pissing in the wind"