Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 30th Aug 2005 17:43 UTC
According to Paul Thurrot, Microsft is planning on releasing Vista to manufacturing on August 9th, 2006, with broad market availbility on November 15th of that year. Beta 2, RC0 and RC1 will be released, respectivily, December 7th (2005), April 19th (2006) and June 28th (2006). All this also applies to Vista Server, with the exception that Server's RTM is scheduled for Januray 10th, 2007. WinFS is supposed to be released in Q3 2007. All these release dates are ahead of schedule.
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RE: Has Microsoft ever respected a promised schedule?
by sappyvcv on Tue 30th Aug 2005 19:50
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RE: Has Microsoft ever respected a promised schedule?
by Lumbergh on Tue 30th Aug 2005 20:01
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RE[2]: Has Microsoft ever respected a promised schedule?
by Tyr. on Tue 30th Aug 2005 22:24
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From Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine, hardly a biased source (well not anti-MS) :
"The result picturing isn't a pretty one. After tallying up all the numbers, we found that, on average, Microsoft ships its desktop OSes 10 months late while its server OSes are just over a year late. The track record for major, mold-breaking OSes, however, is much worse. Windows 95, for example, was 14 months late, while NT Server 4.0 was 21 months late—nearly two years."
( http://www.mcpmag.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=465 )
But hey who knows maybe they pull it off this time. I just don't notice a lot of enthousiasm for Vista anymore though.
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Not really trolling (not too much, anyway...)
But really, has MS ever respected a release schedule?
If I remember correctly Windows95 was out almost in 96...