Microsoft’s launch of Windows 10 will likely take place in late July, according to AMD. During AMD’s latest earnings call last week, president and CEO Lisa Su revealed the launch timing for Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. Answering a question on inventory plans, Su said, “With the Windows 10 launch at the end of July, we are watching sort of the impact of that on the back-to-school season, and expect that it might have a bit of a delay to the normal back-to-school season inventory build-up.”
That seems awfully early considering the stories you hear on Twitter about Windows 10’s current state.
Tom as Dogbert in 6 months.
http://dilbert.com/strip/1993-12-04
If it happens again, it seems that Microsoft can not learn with their own mistakes. I played with Windows 8 on release day, and despite the stable desktop part of OS, the Metro part was clearly unfinished. Let’s hope they do better this time.
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I mean, seriously– With all the bloggers out there, the best reference for how Windows 10 is doing is TWITTER??!
Build 1049 seems “OK”, but a bit difficult to navigate– They’re halfway between the “old” way and the “new” way. Finding the bluetooth settings, for instance, nearly drove me crazy. I had to use the start menu search– unfortunately, start menu search also searches Bing, and if there’s a way to turn that off post-install, I could’t find it (doesn’t mean it’s not there).
You can also bring up either the Windows 7 control panel, or the Windows 10 control panel– and they’re not the same interface(s).
Still though, this is really Windows 8.3. It’s barely worth the .0 that inevitably brings pain. They’re only incrementing the release version because they’re hoping people won’t associate it with Windows 8.0.
But seriously, who used Windows 3.0? Windows 95″A”? Windows 98 first edition? Windows XP before SP1 (although SP2 is when XP got good)… Or Windows ME (at all)?
In it’s current form, it’s OK for a general release, but only barely.
On the other hand, Microsoft is putting some serious resources into the development, and they’re developing at a speed almost comparable to open source.
If Windows 10 is to be launched in late July, consider it will “go gold” a couple of months earlier: bits frozen, install images going to the DVD factory and such. This leaves something like a month for development, which is not good for a “barely OK for release” product.
I do agree that “Late July” seems too early, but there is no such thing anymore as a golden master that goes to DVD factories. Microsoft is now releasing a new build to their OEM partners every once in a while and by the time that release is included on the new pc that you buy there will be updates waiting for you to be installed for sure.
(want to check which exact build you are running, check the output of this registry value:
reg query “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion” | find /i “BuildLabEx”
That buildversion actually gets updated during several Windows updates that you consider to be 8.1.x)
the UI has to be frozen in advance. you may not send images to the disk factory, but still need plenty of time to prepare documentation and marketing materials. the OEMs need the install images in advance too, to test them a bit on the actual hardware, to install them, to ship the devices with it and such.
the post-install “0-day” patches aren’t supposedly to dramatically change the OS.
Documentation? I think that when extinct in 1998. I bought win 8 retail, no stinking documentation comes with it. 99% of marketing is BS, so I think you’re fine there too.
I think the point is that while there is obviously *some* time needed to get ready for a windows launch, its most likely a lot less than what was required 10 – 15 years ago.
Guess Microsoft is going the route of many AAA game publishers – ship a broken-ass beta version on the disk, then require a 2gb patch on launch day just to function correctly …
Except it won’t be one 2 gb patch with one associated reboot. It’ll be three hundred small patches, in rounds of about 25, with a reboot required after each one. I always dispise reinstalling Windows, because I know the endless loop of update/restart/update/restart is next, and windows can’t handle it without some intervention because if, say, I let it do what it wants it will install IE 11 then try to apply IE 10 security patches over top of it. Yes, things like this still happen, and when they do, you’re looking at a reinstall all over again. Out of all the major oses, Windows’ update situation is the worst.
Yes, Out of all the major oses, Windows’ update situation is the worst. That is absolutely true. But it did get better by a lot. If I clean install 8.1 now I get 1 update round of about 70 critical and 30 optional updates and 1 reboot. After that there are only 2 tiny updates that don’t require a reboot. Surely no “IE10->11 and breaks because of IE10 patches” situation anymore.
Also, IE (Spartan) will update as a store-app, so SHOULDN’T even require reboots anymore.
(Still, I prefer the 1 update from 10.8.2 to 10.8.3 that a MacBook now has)
So, now workers will be even more tempted by the internet. I am not saying we are not totally capable of screwing off all on our own, but now when you search on your computer the results could be “here is that thing you wanted, and look at this cool thing, and this cool thing, and this shiny rock, and this one!”
Whoa.
Check this :
https://www.edg.com/index.php?location=c_lang
The problem is the (lack) of interest for developers. I do hope Windows 10 will change this but I still do not see any developers rushing in with apps that can be tested before launch.
It’s suprisingly easy to build apps now on Windows, but the support is still not there.
Releasing Windows 10 faster only speaks disperation to not be behind the trend again.
People are also afraid of the software incompatibilities it will undoubtedly reveals hence forcing them to another round of paying upgrades to bring your application collection par with the OS.
Will this marketing Behemoth provide them with indisputable enhancements or it is just a planned racketeering on a 2 years basis ?
The software industry is drooling in anticipation, rubbing their hands. For instance, now that 4K displays are out, sure such an OS upgrade is a necessary evil to handle such high dpi resolutions.
This is boring and resources wasting.
Edited 2015-04-21 08:59 UTC
Maybe Lisa is new to this, but -Tom- you know that a lot should have happened by now, if true.