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Microsoft Hits Windows Vista Beta 2 Delays

Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 11th Nov 2005 00:53 UTC, submitted by Mr. Tan

Sources at the company told Paul Thurrott this week that Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006. However, because the Vista development schedule is extremely time constrained, the company will try and make up lost time by eliminating one of the planned release candidate (RC) milestones that were planned for later in the process.

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RE: awesome

by DevL on Fri 11th Nov 2005 07:42 UTC in reply to "awesome"

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2005-07-06

Indeed, but what did you expect from a Windows XP/2003 with a facelift? Vista builds on the the same old code with the same old broken design.

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RE[2]: awesome

by Anonymous Penguin on Fri 11th Nov 2005 09:37 in reply to "RE: awesome"

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2005-07-06

Windows 2003? I wish you were right, because believe me, said by an anonymous penguin, that is a good OS.

Unfortunately they didn't listen to the (many) people asking for a Workstation edition of 2003.

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RE[3]: awesome

by Kroc on Fri 11th Nov 2005 11:21 in reply to "RE[2]: awesome"

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2005-11-10

Didn't you know that Windows Vista is built off of the Windows 2003 Kernal? The entire 4000 series of builds were a kludge off of XPSP2. It had been patched so many times that the developers could not get any work done. It was decided to scrap all of longhorn and start again with the clean Windows 2003 kernal. With Vista's hardware and presentation pinnings, it is now classed as NT6 and not NT5.3.

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