Speaking at a forum in South Africa regarding a plan for Microsoft to make major technology investments in the country, Bill Gates said there was an "80 percent chance" Windows Vista would by ready for its planned January launch. He also had no qualms about delaying the OS further if necessary.
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Member since:2005-12-13
That is exactly a poin tI don't like hearing, 'memory is cheap'... As if this thing is ever gonna stop?
-We all will have to buy more and more memory because nowadays these companies don't care about hardware demands, only their own prestige...
...And it seems as if Apple and Microsoft both want us to be using the newest, flashiest hardware around...
...The era of optimization down to the mitty gritty has long gone... Today the argument is that 'everything is cheap' where as in the '90s 'everything was expensive'....
Member since:2005-07-06
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...The era of optimization down to the mitty gritty has long gone... Today the argument is that 'everything is cheap' where as in the '90s 'everything was expensive'....[/QUOTE]
Everything is cheap today --- except the programmer time required to optimize a program.
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Member since:2006-01-02
MSFT doesn't ship debug code to customers for Beta products. It doesn't make any sense for them to do so because people would get bitten by asserts and other random debug stuff. It's not useful for MSFT to ship out anything for a Beta that they wouldn't ship out for the actual product, aside from last-minute feature changes.
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2006-06-24
If I remember rightly, it's a beta isn't it? They probably have quite a bit debug stuff to strip out for one thing. And I a lot of optimisation too. And memory is pretty cheap.
If you have Office, make sure it's not preloading it on startup. MS seems to think that's a good idea.
But yep; if it ain't ready, don't ship it ....