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      Vista Trains Just May Run on Time

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      Jason Brooks
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      May 1, 2012
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        As Mary Jo Foleys reporting reveals, theres renewed doubt as to whether Microsoft can manage to ship Vista—the companys long-delayed Windows client refresh—in time to make the product available for corporate customers before the start of 2007.

        I havent yet run the Vista build that Microsoft will release the week of May 22 at WinHEC and brand Beta 2.

        But unless Vista has regressed from its state since the last time I looked at, in March, I dont see any reason why Microsoft shouldnt be able to tighten up the operating system quickly enough to ship “on time.”

        /zimages/6/28571.gifClick here to read about why analysts are saying that this could be Vistas “make or break” moment.

        Granted, my recollections of the beta process that took us from “Whistler” to Windows XP are (sad to say) relatively distant at this point, but the string of preview builds that Microsoft shipped seem to have moved along at a similar clip.

        Also, as everybodys well aware at this point, the Vista well see several months from now will be quite a bit more modest than the one dimly outlined at Microsofts 2003 Professional Developers Conference.

        /zimages/6/28571.gifMicrosoft reveals the hardware requirements to run Windows Vista. Read more here.

        WinFS is the most popularly called-out Vista feature removal, but there was a time when “Longhorn” was to include much more ambitious pieces as well, such as the Next-Generation Secure Computing Base.

        Microsofts development process does appear to be in need of a serious overhaul: Windows is enormous, and its not modular enough for any organization, even one as large as Microsoft, to manage that complexity nimbly.

        The bottom line: As long as the client applications on which most enterprises rely are made only for Windows—and enterprises dont demand anything else—lackluster execution is more than good enough to maintain a hold on the worlds desktops.

        Senior Analyst Jason Brooks can be reached at [email protected].

        /zimages/6/28571.gifCheck out eWEEK.coms for Microsoft and Windows news, views and analysis.

        Jason Brooks
        As Editor in Chief of eWEEK Labs, Jason Brooks manages the Labs team and is responsible for eWEEK's print edition. Brooks joined eWEEK in 1999, and has covered wireless networking, office productivity suites, mobile devices, Windows, virtualization, and desktops and notebooks. Jason's coverage is currently focused on Linux and Unix operating systems, open-source software and licensing, cloud computing and Software as a Service. Follow Jason on Twitter at jasonbrooks, or reach him by email at [email protected]

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