We will sell no wine OS before its time. I am reminded of the Gallo wine commercial of many years ago. The line was "We will sell no wine before its time" and the meaning was that high quality wine can not be released to the market before it is ready. C/Net reported that feature development of Vista is complete, and Quality testing is causing the delay.
Allchin said some of the additional time would be used to ensure security levels, and the company is also working on ironing out usability issues. "We're trying to crank up the security level higher than ever," Allchin said. "This came down to a few weeks. We're trying to do the responsible thing here."
This means that Vista will miss the Christmas buying season for 2006. The new release date is scheduled for January 2007. There should be a little more confidence in this date since it is narrowed down to a "month" rather than a year or a season.
The new version of Office, Outlook and Sharepoint are still on target for later this year. I am using internal beta versions now and they are great!
UPDATE: It has just been reported by the Wall Street Journal that Steve Sinofsky, currently head of the Office division, will be named to head the Windows OS development, replacing Jim Allchin who had previously announced his intention to retire this year. This is a great move! Steve Sinofsky has successfully run the Microsoft Office division for many years.
here is my idea for how to finesse it - offer Xbox rebates
http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/001422.html
Posted by: James Governor | March 23, 2006 at 06:21 AM