Possible delay to Vista release?

Quality is to be the overriding factor. Here's an interview with Jim Allchin:

http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...fm?NewsID=5263

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"We want to make sure we drive the quality up very high," he said. "When we do something like Windows that’s literally going to [have] hundreds of millions of users using it, we want to build the highest-quality piece of software we can within a reasonable time frame. But at a certain point we make a determination: is this good enough for hundreds of millions or not? And if you rush something like that, then you end up harming everyone - our partners, us, our customers, so it has to be top of line."

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Dang it! I thought for sure that Redmond wouldn't come out with a "delay message" for at least another month. :rolleyes:

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Microsoft has hinted at the possibility of delaying Windows Vista if it does not meet quality expectations.

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In other words, I'll bet the development team just found huge gaping holes in Vista's security. That, or the two or three Service Packs aren't ready yet... ;)

"Cynical"? Moi??

Oh, those service packs are ready. The problem is that they haven't come up with a good release schedule for them yet.

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Executive 1 "Service pack 1 will be released in Autumn 2008. Service Pack 2 will be released in Summer 2010, Service pack 3, in Winter 2013."
Executive 2 "What do you mean Winter 2013? What'll happen to our revenues? This is preposterous! We can't release it in 2013, Mr. Gates will never let that happen."
Executive 3 "In light of this argument, we'll have to postpone the release of Vista until sometime in 2007. Lets tell consumers it is to be announced"

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:D