On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 22:16 +0530, Vihan Pandey wrote:
By May of 2006, it was quite clear that Vista was _ahem_ doomed :P
really? It seems that development was frozen on November 8th, 2007 and only after that it was it released for testing and eventually made its way to sections of the general public.
Ok...lemme scratch my head :P
Vista, code named Longhorn, was supposed to be released in late 2003. It was supposed to be the stepping stone to Windows Vienna. Their schedule slipped. Lots of crap happened. WinFS and several key features were dropped. Scheduled slipped yet again and again and again and ... well ... again. Then they gutted the entire codebase. Hehehe... and switched to Win2k3 code base hoping they'll get back on track. This was in 2004. Finally its release date was set to be in 2005. It slipped twice or thrice after which they were supposed to release it for Christmas 2006. That didn't happen. There was a big out cry as Dell and other vendors lost a lot of $$$$ due to this stupid move. Then Jan 2007 was set as the final date for its release ;)
So my dear friend it was 101% clear that Vista was doomed. By May 2006, several key features were dropped, code based was jettisoned and a new code base was adopted, schedules slipped, heads rolled at M$.
However if you are speaking rhetorically implying that everything M$ makes is doomed from the start that's another matter :P
No. I dont flame M$ just cuz its M$! :P