May 2nd, 2006
Gartner Says Windows Vista Will Be Delayed
By Jimmy Daniels
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
Looks like Windows Vista will not be debuting this November, and it looks like they are going to miss ANOTHER Christmas season to push their products, if you ask Gartner Inc. As noted before by Michael, the consumer version has already been delayed until next year, now gartner believes they will delay it for volume license customers as well.
The research note, released to clients on Monday, said the new Windows Vista operating system is too complex to be able to meet Microsoft’s targeted November release for volume license customers and January launch for retail consumers.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company disagreed with the Gartner report and it was still on track to meet its launch dates.
Gartner targets a Windows Vista release in the April-June quarter of 2007, nine to 12 months after Microsoft conducts a second major test, or “beta,” release for Vista during the current quarter.
“Microsoft still wants to get it out as soon as possible, but slipping from January to March is nowhere near as bad as slipping from shipping before the holidays to after the holidays,” a group of Gartner analysts wrote in the report.
Gartner said Windows XP took five months to go from a second test release to the start of production, but the magnitude of technological improvement in Vista is closer to Windows 2000, which took 16 months between the second test and production. Source: yahoo.
We Say: Like I said before, people aren’t going to load Vista, it’s going to come pre-loaded on systems, there will be a few people who actually buy it off the shelf, people like me who want to test it out, so I don’t see it really hurting them as people are still going to be buying PCs with their operating system on it.
David Johnston says:
Watching the release date for Vista slip further and further back is just depressing…
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Alice says:
Name one Microsoft product that was released even close to on time? Maybe Windows 95 and only because they named it after the fact.
May 2nd, 2006 at 3:51 pm
David Sterry says:
It seems to me anyone can write an article like this and it will get a fair amount of press. Who is Gartner, Inc. to say what MS schedule is?
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:17 pm
Sergio Pereira says:
#3: Are you really asking who Gartner is? Gartner deserves some credit for quite a few decent analysis they’ve historically done and they have access to more information than most of us.
It doesn’t mean they are right all the time, but they are known to provide guidance to the Industry and stock market.
May 3rd, 2006 at 4:03 am
Kevin says:
Well, like I always say at work when our software is running late, “software released late is less disasterous than software released on time”.
May 3rd, 2006 at 6:10 am
Karl says:
Its been almost 5 years since MS came out with an OS. And delays are always going to be there no matter what and depending on applicatio in questoin. I’m personally not worry about having the next greatest thing from MS. I have seen a lot of different OS come out from MS. Going from windows 95 to windows XP. I’m personally tired of hearing delays from MS for the next big release for their OS. ANd switched personally to a different OS that comes out every 6 months and the support for them are about 18-24 months for patches anging from the kernels to the software that they package with the OS. And that is with Ubuntu linux. If MS would have done it right it would have learnt from some of the other OS vendors that are out there. And thats to work with what is stable and bring it fourth into the next OS. I don’t want to sound like I am a MS hater or anything. But come on make the correction with it and make sure that there are not that many patches that have to come out for it. And make it flexible for everyone and works on a wide variety of machines. Instead of pushing the envelop of newer machines. Linux has learnt this every well by still working from older hardware (Pre Pentiums machines) to todays modern pcs.
Karl
May 3rd, 2006 at 10:57 am