And this is the first OS I've tested since OS/2 2.0 back in 1991 that I felt was not ready for it's proposed release date. We helped design the OS/2 Warp 4 desktop with IBM. I've been beta testing OSes for going on two decades. Paul Thurrott is also pondering Vista's ship date he's more ambivalent. As he writes, he had given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt but it's become clear that Vista is not likely to be solid by the time it's supposed to go gold. In fact, even now, August 2006, running a very recent external build (5472 but not 5484 -or later- because Microsoft's internal ISV program is ridiculous but that's a whole different issue), it's not something I could run as my primary OS. My argument with beta 2 was straight forward - Whistler (May 2001) was something you could actually run, Vista beta 2 was not. My friend Robert McLaws and I have been going over this for months. None of my projects are remotely as large as Windows Vista but it doesn't take someone with that kind of experience to recognize that Windows Vista is not where it needs to be in order to ship in good shape at the end of the year. Since beta 2, I have been privately telling some of my confidants that Vista's development was not on track for their release schedule.īy profession I'm a software developer. When I started writing this article, I thought I might be a voice in the wilderness.
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