Windows 7 moved up to late 2009?
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| Reasoning for the stepped up schedule is uncertain but may be an attempt to
| counter a perceived lukewarm reception to Windows Vista, whose January 2007
| launch has been slow to gain support and has pressured the company into
| extending the sales period for Windows XP until June.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/18/windows.7.set.for.2h09/
See:
March 28, 2006
Windows Vista: Past Its Due Date Already
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| I can't tell you the feeling of deja vu I had when I read that. 40 percent
| larger than Windows XP? There is no possibility that Windows is in good
| health. NONE. They're adding, but they're not removing. They're not moving
| forward, they are stuck so deep in the muck that every step is painful. Dan
| Farber at ZDNet sees the same desparate quandry for Microsoft. Good
| engineering does not result in products such as this.
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http://garywiz.typepad.com/trial_by_fire/2006/03/windows_vista_p.html
Related:
Vista's Problem: Microsoft Does Not Scale
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| It is deeply ironic that once upon a time Linux - and Linus - was taxed with
| an inability to scale. Today, though, when Linux is running everything from
| most of the world's supercomputers to the new class of sub-laptops like the
| Asus EEE PC and increasing numbers of mobile phones, it is Microsoft that
| finds itself unable to scale its development methodology to handle this
| range. Indeed, it can't even produce a decent desktop system, as the whole
| Vista fiasco demonstrates.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/01/vistas-problem-microsoft-does-not-scale.html
Opinion: Competing Trends are Creating an Opening for Linux
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| Vista faces problems here. Cheap hardware becomes impossible if the operating
| system itself costs hundreds of dollars, and you just can’t fit much hardware
| into a highly mobile device. Linux solves both these problems. Linux has low
| requirements. Linux is free.
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http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2007/11/28/opinion-competing-trends-are-creating-an-opening-for-linux/
Windows Vista: Sold but not deployed
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| Microsoft says it remains happy with enterprise sales of Vista -- however,
| the software behemoth acknowledges that many businesses which have bought
| Vista licences are yet to deploy the software.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Windows-Vista-Sold-but-not-deployed/0,130061733,339284495,00.htm
Will Windows Vista Succeed In 2008? Don't Count On It
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| Vista has certainly been slow out of the gate. Sure, Microsoft is putting the
| operating system on newly shipped systems, but Vista sales didn’t benefit
| from the upgrade surge that previous OSes got upon release. A year after it
| began shipping, less than one percent of corporate desktops are running
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Vista.
| ^^^^^
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/01/will_windows_vi.html
Windows Vista kicked out of Olympics PCs
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| Microsoft's latest version of Windows is too risky to implement for the
| important computers managing the 2008 Olympic summer games in Beijing, said
| the event's computer supplier and sponsor Lenovo.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/08/08/no.vista.on.olympic.pcs/
Acer: PC industry 'disappointed' with Vista
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| Acer president Gianfranco Lanci became the first major PC manufacturer to
| openly attack Microsoft over the Windows Vista operating system in the
| Financial Times Deutschland on Monday.
|
| Lanci said the operating system was riddled with problems and gave users and
| businesses no reason to buy a new PC, according to the report. Taiwan-based
| Acer is the world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, after HP, Dell and
| Lenovo.
|
| "The whole industry is disappointed with Windows Vista," Lanci said.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=9579
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