Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Next Generation Operating System?

Sooooo.... Windows Vista has slipped (at least in it's home consumer version) to a release date sometime in January 2007. It seems that there are 'quality issues'. Not another 8 weeks or so is going to make the slightest bit of difference to the final quality of the product - that of a cheap Mac OS X ripoff - but interesting that the jolly chaps in Redmond don't seem to give a shite about the PC manufacturers who will lose out on a huge amount of unit sales this Christmas.
Slipping release dates are not strangers to Bill and the boys from Redmond, as this superb piece from the Register maps out very well. 
Waiting with bated breath? 
What probably wasn't mentioned in the marketing guff was that when they were talking about a next generation operating system, they meant that it might well be be released in time for your grandchildren to use.

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