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mdlbearVista debut hits a delay
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a delay of Windows Vista that will mean PCs with the new operating system won't go on sale until January.
The software maker said it will still wrap up development of the operating system this year and make it available to volume-licensing customers in November. However, Microsoft said a delay of a few weeks in Vista's schedule meant that some PC makers would be able to launch this year and others would not. As a result, Windows chief Jim Allchin said the company is delaying the broad launch of the product until January.
Microsoft: Office 2007 to be late, too
Fresh on the heels of a delay in broad availability of Windows Vista, Microsoft confirmed late Thursday that it is also pushing the mainstream launch of Office 2007 to next year.
As with Vista, Microsoft hopes to finish the code for Office 2007 this year. The company said work will be completed by October, when it will make Office 2007 available to business customers that have signed up for Microsoft's volume-licensing program.
What's really going on is that Microsoft will (they say) be shipping something to volume customers in November -- but that's OK because none of their volume customers are going to be rolling it out in volume until they've given it a couple of months worth of shakedown. Microsoft is hoping that the resulting float will give them enough time to get the consumer version into new PCs and beat down the first couple of months worth of show-stopper bugs.
Can Microsoft Make the Trains Run on Time?
By Mary Jo Foley
Windows doesn't have the corner on the market when it comes to slip dates. Office 2007 is running behind schedule, too. So will appointing Microsoft's Office chief to head Windows really fix Microsoft's delivery problems?
And to answer that question...
60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten
Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new Vista operating system is set to be rewritten as the Company "scrambles" to fix internal problems a Microsoft insider has confirmed to SHN.
In an effort to meet a dealine of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas Microsoft has pulled programmers from the highly succesful Xbox team to help resolve many problems associated with entertainment and media centre functionality inside the OS. The team are also working closely with engineers from the Intel Viiv team. and it is now expected that the next version of Viiv could be delayed to line up with the launch of the consumer version of Vista at the 2007 CES Show in Las Vegas.
update: According to Microsoft's geek blogger Robert Scoble, it's "hogwash". Should have known it was too good to be true. The announced delays, however, are real, and a sensible IT person would regard them as minimums.
Let's see, 60% of however many millions of lines of code, at an industry average of 10 lines of debugged code per programmer per day. Yeah, I might believe '07. But I won't give you odds on which century.
Or you can save yourself a lot of time and aggravation, and get the service pack right now from the good people at Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, or Novell.
