Windows Vista Vista Delayed till 2007

[Ian]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4831374.stm

Looks like its going to be delayed by quite a few months - better this than released with bugs!

Bit disappointing though for those buying a new PC this year and hoped for Vista

 

[marleyuk]

Thats quite disappointing. Although i heard the beta 2 version will be out soon for general use so that should be ok as a stop gap.

 

[murdoch]

that's really bad, i thought part of the joy's of a new MS O/S was the bugs & unreliability

 

[muckshifter]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4831374.stm

Looks like its going to be delayed by quite a few months - better this than released with bugs!

Bit disappointing though for those buying a new PC this year and hoped for Vista

They will be offering "trade-up" and "Free Updates" ... that you would have paid for anyway ... just to name two.

 

[CITech]

Is anyone really surprised by the delay?

Let's all be honest, if the product was delivered on time then it just wouldn't be "Microsoft"

At least they have stopped putting a year into the title, ie. Windows 95, Office 97. Although I did hear that the number wasn't intended to represent the year of the product's release, but more like the percentage of problems it would cause for you ....

Ho hum

 

[ChristopherP]

Christ! What was Windows 2000 all about then!?

haha

No this sucks... how overdue was XP?

 

[mudfrog]

Well hopefully it will be a more reliable operating system out of the box due to the delay.

Doubt I will be getting it straight away anyway. Like things to be a bit more tried and tested before I take the plunge. Especially here at work. Believe it or not there are a couple of 95 machines in the field

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Cheers,

Rich

 

[Anon_F]

Christ! What was Windows 2000 all about then!?

haha

No this sucks... how overdue was XP?

argh, well bill gates & paul allen must be down to their last 2 billion and a new O/S will bring in some needed $$. I'm sure that when the new O/S comes out it will include a year as well, after all the others have, ok apart from XP but then even MS could not bring two out under the 2000 banner

 

[Rush]

bill gates & paul allen must be down to their last 2 billion

More like $25 billion

 

[ChristopherP]

More like $25 billion

Plus the other 100 bil in the piggy bank on the windowsil