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by pwhysall
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4/5/06 2:05:04 AM
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New This is a crucial point in MS's corporate lifecycle
I believe that Vista represents the functional limits of the MS development processes. Simply put, they don't scale up to this project. Without the untouchable presences of Gates and Ballmer at the helm (any other CEO would have been fired long since), I don't believe they'd have been able to sustain anything like this.

(To be honest, they didn't scale up to NT4, 2000 or XP either, but none of those projects was THIS late and had THIS many features dropped - although the object filesystem was supposed to be in NT4...)

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Post #251,061
by cforde
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4/5/06 2:57:15 AM
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can you say [link|http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1681636,00.asp|Software Assurance]? So far, the money Microsoft has received in SA licenses has resulted in a net loss to customers. [link|http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2006/03/vista-2007-fire-leadership-now.html#c114309086992411929|Apparently], some of those licenses are due to expire at the end of the year. So Microsoft has to ship something before the end of the year or risk their largest customers suing them for fraud. Which explains why Vista will be released to corporate customers before it is available to everyone else.
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Post #251,323
by jb4
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4/7/06 1:40:57 PM
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New s/Vista/a mere shadow of something resembling Vista/
jb4
"Every Repbulican who wants to defend Bush on [the expansion of Presidential powers], should be forced to say, 'I wouldn't hesitate to see President Hillary Rodham Clinton have the same authority'."
&mdash an unidentified letter writer to Newsweek on the expansion of executive powers under the Bush administration
     Vista will be late. - (Another Scott) - (27) - March 21, 2006, 11:13:18 PM EST
         s/./r. -NT - (Steve Lowe) - (7) - March 22, 2006, 12:02:41 AM EST
             That doesn't do what you think it does. :-P -NT - (ben_tilly) - (6) - March 22, 2006, 01:54:15 AM EST
                 how 'bout s/\\./.r -NT - (jb4) - (5) - March 29, 2006, 10:16:37 AM EST
                     That was my point, exactly. -NT - (ben_tilly) - (4) - March 29, 2006, 01:49:09 PM EST
                         K3wl! I lernt linnix! -NT - (jb4) - (3) - March 29, 2006, 04:08:50 PM EST
                             No... yew lurnt bash escapes and regex -NT - (folkert) - (2) - March 29, 2006, 07:47:47 PM EST
                                 What do bash escapes have to do with that? -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 30, 2006, 01:44:07 AM EST
                                 You're right... - (jb4) - April 3, 2006, 01:04:08 PM EDT
         colour me unsurprised - (cforde) - (1) - March 22, 2006, 01:57:20 AM EST
             Sorry, I've used up that crayon - (drewk) - March 22, 2006, 02:17:08 AM EST
         Same reaction to this post.. - (bepatient) - April 4, 2006, 01:11:30 PM EDT
         This is a crucial point in MS's corporate lifecycle - (pwhysall) - (2) - April 5, 2006, 02:05:04 AM EDT
             assuredly so - (cforde) - (1) - April 5, 2006, 02:57:15 AM EDT
                 s/Vista/a mere shadow of something resembling Vista/ -NT - (jb4) - April 7, 2006, 01:40:57 PM EDT
         Cringely says it's the big OEM's fault. - (Another Scott) - (12) - April 7, 2006, 02:27:09 PM EDT
             The RTM Date DID Slip - (altmann) - April 7, 2006, 03:23:20 PM EDT
             Cringely is overrated. - (pwhysall) - (10) - April 7, 2006, 08:07:37 PM EDT
                 Did Peter just make a grammar error?!?! -NT - (Another Scott) - (7) - April 7, 2006, 08:12:39 PM EDT
                     No. -NT - (pwhysall) - (6) - April 7, 2006, 08:58:18 PM EDT
                         "X less stupid as Y" is a strange construct to these eyes. -NT - (Another Scott) - (4) - April 7, 2006, 09:04:27 PM EDT
                             Ditto - (Silverlock) - April 7, 2006, 09:39:15 PM EDT
                             Temporarily skip over the qualifying "only slightly less". -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (2) - April 8, 2006, 08:20:34 AM EDT
                                 That works, but it's not quite the same. - (Another Scott) - April 8, 2006, 09:54:23 AM EDT
                                 Doesn't work; that's the operative part of the sentence. -NT - (CRConrad) - April 10, 2006, 03:55:09 AM EDT
                         Yes. -NT - (CRConrad) - April 10, 2006, 03:55:50 AM EDT
                 which cringley, there are several of them -NT - (boxley) - (1) - April 8, 2006, 10:13:37 AM EDT
                     The one on pbs.org -NT - (static) - April 10, 2006, 12:18:25 AM EDT

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