No Windows XP Service Pack 3 Until... 2008!
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| Microsoft previously announced that the next service pack
| for its Windows XP operating system would be coming out in
| mid-2007. The date has now slipped back more than a year,
| and is now due in the first quarter of 2008.
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http://www.techsmessage.com/2006/10/19/no-xp-service-pack-3-until-2008/
Proof that the customer does not matter, as well as an attempt
to force an upgrade? No Linux distributer will descend to such
poor pattern of delays.
Also see:
Are Accurate Delivery Dates Too Much to Ask for?
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| Heck, I wasn't even thinking at all. Rocks fall when
| you drop them; products ship anywhere from two to eight
| weeks after they're "available" and one to two years,
| in the case of Microsoft, after their first delivery
| date has been promised.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2031620,00.asp
Add the vapourware factor.
Add the customer abandonment factor.
IE 7 vs. Firefox 2.0: Why This Browser Battle
Matters To Businesses
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| On second thought, the 21-year-old Ross lets the fighting words fly.
| "Firefox brought Microsoft back to the table, but they make no
| guarantees how long they'll stick around," he says. "I can't
| imagine why any individual--let alone an IT department--would
| bet on a company with a proven track record of gross
| abandonment."
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=193302940
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