Boy 'oh boy...all hell is breaking loose up in Redmond, and I bet these boys aren't doing the vista boogie now. If you haven't already seen the reports, Microsoft has announced yet another slip in it's launch date of Vista. You will now have to wait until at least early 2007 before getting a PC with Vista as the factory installed OS.
It seems that there are quite a few MSFT employees that are ticked off and not drinking the kool-aide. Check out the comments in this post..
[ via Mini Microsoft ]
It certainly sounded like Microsoft leadership committed to us, our customers, our partners, and our shareholders that Vista would be out in 2006.
Slip!
We should have asked for more details around the "or else" part of that commitment.
I was upset at missing the back-to-school market. Now we're missing the holiday sales market. All of those laptops and PCs are going to have XP on it. What percentage will upgrade to Vista? Well, I guess that's the little dream that I need to give up on. Vista's deployment is going to come from people buying CPUs with the OS pre-installed, not dancing down the CompUSA aisle as they clutch that boxed version of Vista to their loving chest. So not only did we miss last year's opportunity, we're missing this year's opportunity, too. With the convergence of high-tech media, this holiday season would have been an explosive nodal point to get Vista out for a compounded effect...
[ Full Story: Mini-Microsoft: Vista 2007. Fire the leadership now! ]
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