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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...and after all this racket can someone please explain to me why it matters if release dates slip?
I mean, it obviously means they are putting more work into it than planned, isn't that a good thing? Some people really do see a thing to moan about in everything...
It could be indicative of bad planning or a badly managed project under severe time-stress to release a product. Even worse it could mean that there were a lot of last-minute issues that had to be resolved. "More work than planned" usually means something went wrong.
All of this could be forgiven for an internal project, but other people depend on MS release schedule to plan their own upgrades.
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2005-06-29
...and after all this racket can someone please explain to me why it matters if release dates slip?
I mean, it obviously means they are putting more work into it than planned, isn't that a good thing? Some people really do see a thing to moan about in everything...