El Reg has made a few phonecalls to the big Microsoft OEMs, and confirmed that Microsoft will ship Vista to OEMs before Christmas 2006. It seems like only the retail version of Vista wil be delayed until January 
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Nice cover story Thom, but I've always known you were an agent of Microsoft!
The truth is that Microsoft has solicited the services of Superman to reverse the spin of the earth, thus bringing us back rougly two years so Vista won't actually be late. Since this is a gradual process next year will be 2006 again, and the one following that will be 2005. Those of you hugging your Apple and Linux boxes right now might want to savour the moment, when the second comming of 2005 happens you'll all be running Vista.
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this is scary. vista is so so far from ready, i'm afraid to see what kind of crap they push out the door. i cant imagine how they can have it ready in such a short time.
i just tested the latest build (5342) on my Athlon 64 3200+, PCI-E 16x Geforce 6600GT, 2GB ddr400 ram. theyve got the features in there but everything is so completely unpolished. turning on glass really adds meaning to the word DRRRAG windows around. they move slow, its very annoying. there are so many bitmaps and fixed sized interfaces. wheres my scalable desktop that was promised? changing the dpi borked almost every icon and the glass visual style. dont give me no guff MS, i just loaded up xgl/compiz on this same box, my windows dragged around smooth as butter, with wobbling even. and they dont have nvidia/ati in their back pocket to help with years of driver support/refinement.
the new LUA thing is annoying as hell. the default install asked for permission to damn near anything, and run any compononent including microsoft digitally signed apps. there is nothing wrong with the whole seperate admin and users. half assing by still letting users run as admin, but with limitations is suicide for windows security. you dont run any os as root and limit priv where appropriate. you run as user and elevate to root where appropriate. and thats also how i run my XP desktop and I've never ever had a malware infestation. users should be users, not mutant hybrid lua limited administrators. it just takes one little bit of social engineering to have the limited user click the "give it admin privs" button. its not much better than just running as a plain admin as a solution to their security problems.
i thought microsoft had a lot of usability experts designing these ui's. the first thing i did on xp was switch the control panel to classic view. i didn't think it was possible, but in vista they bastardized it even further. navigating to settings is a labyrinth of redirections and UI inconsistencies.
le sigh. i use windows, but another borked windows release out the door, and MS is in for troubled times.
