Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Experience overcomes Microsoft's broken promises
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| The major issue here is that whilst Microsoft conveniently forgets the past,
>| most of us can still remember SQL Server 2003, er...2004, oh, actually, that
>| was eventually 2005. So Microsoft is turning into a serial offender when it
>| comes to slippage.
> `----
>
> http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/01/29/project_watch_two/
>
> Windows 7 won't be released in 2009 after all
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| We'll guess that Windows 7 won't be generally available in final form until
>| about 2012 or thereabouts, maybe 2013.
> `----
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/28/windows-won-released-2009
>
I recall discussing this Microsoft tactic in work around the time of
WfW3.11, just as we were being taken off the very excellent all-in-one
and transferred to Microsoft Mail. We found out about lost messages at
that time, something which had never happened before...
Either way, the vapourware tactic has been well known for years,
however, the difference is that it is completely ineffective in
addressing the development of free software. It might affect takeup by
more cautious CIO types (ie., those for whom change always looks worse
than staying with the devil you know), but for an increasingly large
number of users, free software is just good. Thanks to Firefox &
Openoffice.org, the average user is finding this out.
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