Otellini lets slip Vista Service Pack date
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| Speaking on an earnings call with analysts, Otellini stunned the
| virtually assembled hacks by telling them that, when it came to the
| impact of Vista on Intel's bottom line, "In the corporate space, I
| believe most companies will act like Intel and do some pilots and
| testing today, but the deployment will actually happen when the
| service pack gets released in the fourth-quarter timeframe -
| probably the October, November timeframe."
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Bad pace. People expected an SP around July (6 months). Perhaps it's time to
look elsewhere now that Leopard is delayed as well. Ubuntu gets clean and
complete releases every 6 months. While Microsoft said it would like to
imitate this approach, it's clearly unable to even deliver fixes within a
6-month timeframe.
Related:
Microsoft admits Vista screwed - report
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| Vista SP1 is code named "Fiji", presumably after a pretty looking
| island which is paralysed by coups.
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| In a statement regarding the service pack Microsoft admits that
| Vista has "high impact" problems.
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