Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> ____/ BearItAll on Wednesday 20 June 2007 14:16 : \____
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>
>>> Beta of Vista SP1 coming this year
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | There's no word in the filing on when the final version of SP1 will
>>> | arrive, so I'm guessing that means 2008.
>>> `----
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>>
>
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9731819-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
>>>
>>
>> I know this is MS we are talking about so the action they are taking
>> currently is the norm for them. i.e. keep Vista going out the door even
>> though it is badly broken.
>>
>> But wouldn't you have thought that even MS would see that with-drawing
>> further sales for a period until their problems are solved would be a
>> better step? They can ship XP instead, then have happy jolly users
>> instead of the sort that they have now, misserable feeling very cheated
>> users. I know they would get a bit of riddule by the press, but that must
>> be better than what is happening at the moment.
>>
>> Specially as this news suggests if the SP1 has up to a year of work to be
>> done before it is ready. Just goes to show how crap that final release of
>> Vista really was in February doesn't it, it was short of a years
>> development.
>
> What's rather curious is that fact that service packs contain (at least in
> this case) a lot of fixes, so why need there be a release that's already
> expected to require more fixes? To quote again a bunch of items which show
> Vista is not maintainable (Longhorn/Server 2008 will inherit the same
> problems because they share the same DNA):
>
> More than half of Microsoft Vista needs re-writing
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | "Up to 60% of the code in the new consumer version of Microsoft new
> | Vista operating system is set to be rewritten..."
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=30516
>
There you go, why would software houses bother to write for Vista, whether
that is applications or drivers, when they know that work will likely be
wasted, not even a timescale available for them to decide if a small amount
of time can be safely budgeted into a small project.
MS may have pots of money but not every software house has money to throw
away on wasted development time.
Imagine if Linux was developed like Vista. A broken Debian release, that has
a knockon effect to every derived distro. Then Debian saying 'Don't worry
chaps, it will be fixed by some time next year. In the mean time just don't
install anything or try to run any software'.
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