Vista: Is history repeating itself?

[Sirin]

Back in 1985, Microsoft was supposed to ship Windows 1.0 over a year ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRZx24Ffjw

This re-enactment shows you how mad Gates was when he used Windows.

"Ballmer!!! This stuff is crummy!! It's totally crummy!!" - Bill Gates, Mad about Windows

Makes me wonder if the same thing is going on with Vista?

 

[sushi]

Back in 1985, Microsoft was supposed to ship Windows 1.0 over a year ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtRZx24Ffjw

This re-enactment shows you how mad Gates was when he used Windows.

"Ballmer!!! This stuff is crummy!! It's totally crummy!!" - Bill Gates, Mad about Windows

Makes me wonder if the same thing is going on with Vista?

Yep, Pirates of Silicon Valley is a great movie.

As for Vista's release being delayed. What is amazing is how much has been removed from the original plan.

Anyhow, it will be out after this holiday season -- at least that is the current plan.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Part of the problem is Microsoft's insistence on backward compatibility, and how huge the Windows code base is already. These two factors alone make improving Windows difficult. I think they are largely to blame for Microsoft's slowness in getting Windows Vista ready.

 

[treblah]

Anyhow, it will be out after this holiday season -- at least that is the current plan.

Not quite, they announced a few weeks ago that consumer Vista will not ship until January.

Although I've got $20 that says it will slip further.

 

[nbs2]

Not quite, they announced a few weeks ago that consumer Vista will not ship until January.

Although I've got $20 that says it will slip further.

Uhh.....generally the holiday season runs through new years. I guess if you consider the 26th to be the end, then after the season and January could be different. But, I don't think most people do...

 

[Abstract]

They should just say that from now on, we don't support hardware and software that was written before WinXP was out. Yes, they would lose out on some customers, but they're losing customers everyday to Apple anyway, may as well just make it easier on themselves and get the product THEY WANT out the door rather than this product with half the features.

 

[sushi]

They should just say that from now on, we don't support hardware and software that was written before WinXP was out. Yes, they would lose out on some customers, but they're losing customers everyday to Apple anyway, may as well just make it easier on themselves and get the product THEY WANT out the door rather than this product with half the features.

Two points:

- They are not loosing all that many customers to Apple...yet.

- Many Windows users -- especially corporate and government -- want to run legacy type programs. These organizations still have/use many vertical applications that they cannot function without. So Microsoft has to provide for their needs.

 

[treblah]

Uhh.....generally the holiday season runs through new years. I guess if you consider the 26th to be the end, then after the season and January could be different. But, I don't think most people do...

Uh yeah, my brain decided to not know the definition of 'after' when I first read that.