"Just days after announcing a delay in when Windows Vista will ship, Microsoft has significantly restructured its Platforms & Services Division and appointed Steve Sinofsky, who headed the Office team until now, to head the Windows and Windows Live groups, giving him broad responsibility for planning future versions of Windows. While the company is saying the reorganization is designed to better align the existing Windows and MSN assets with Microsoft's overall Live strategy, some sources tell eWEEK that the delay in the release of Windows Vista was the catalyst for the move." Microsoft employees want heads rolling.
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2005-11-13
Re-arranging the corporate deck-chairs on the titanic?
But seriously, the weekly Vista fiasco must be embarassing as hell for Microsoft. And the fact that they're having trouble shipping the XBox in quantities the consumers are wlling to buy is weird too. Add to that the fact that their stock has been between 25 and 27 for 5 years. Entropy is a pain.
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2005-07-06
The Mini MSFT blog that the second story is talking about is quite astonishing. Here's the direct link:
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now...
According to that, morale within MS is really low, and Vista might be delayed even further.
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Of course it will be delayed further. Does anyone really believe they would release Vista one month after Christmas? That date doesn't make any sense at all. People suffer Buyer's Remorse and Visa Shock in January.
Worse, word on the street is that 60% of what is currently known as "Vista" is going to need to be rewritten. That will not happen, and be adequately tested, by January. http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9011/
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No this is from Microsoft employee site.
The 60% rewrite claim wasn't from the Mini-MS blog. That came from "a Microsoft insider" via an Australian website called smarthouse, so not exactly what you call a reliable source. Who knows, that 60% number might only have referred to a particular component.
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http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Computing/Platforms?Article=/Computing...
Another article on the 60% code thingy.
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2005-07-06
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What do they hope to gain by telling us this?
If the rumours are true, it's probably easier than announcing that more than half the Vista code needs rewriting and that the release date will probably slip beyond January anyway (it's a crap month to launch anything). And that Office 2007 won't appear in 2006, and that the whole Vista thing probably represents a few billion in cost overruns and lost revenue.
The interesting thing so far is the silence from Wall Street. Maybe they've already marked Microsoft so far down to boring ex-growth stock that they just don't care. Who knows.
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