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November 30, 2005
Longhorn delayed?
Longhorn delayed? That's the story floating around the blogs and newspapers today, but I'm not sure it's legit. Yesterday Microsoft announced that Windows Vista Beta 2 will arrive sometime next year, and that the "Community Tech Preview" will change from its previous monthly schedule. Some were expecting Vista Beta 2 in December, but I haven't been able to find any actual Microsoft statement about such a date -- closest I found was one newspaper which predicted Vista Beta 2 in November being denounced by another newspaper which predicted December, and then another reporter with a "sources say" kind of story which said Microsoft's internal date was Dec7. (See The Inquirer, Mary Jo Foley, Paul Thurrott, Digg.com etc to see the chains of belief.) Joe Wilcox has the best summary I've found, and Wikipedia has a build history of the new OS. My takeaway: We're all vulnerable these days to false stories being spread on the net -- it's not enough to say someone is trustworthy, we need to continually check how they know what they say they know.
Posted by John Dowdell at November 30, 2005 06:40 AM
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John, Paul Thurrott and others reported in early November that Vista Beta 2 was going to be delayed until Jan/Feb next year. Not a big deal. They say it's going to be feature complete at the end of December.
I think Beta 1 was shipped in mid July, and at that time they Reported December for a beta 2 which I thought a bit suspect. That's only 4.5 months, and they never turned around a beta for a large project in less than 6 (see .Net 1/2).
Actually, I think they're on track, relative to the new track. But then again, maybe not.
;)
Posted by: Lynn at November 30, 2005 07:52 AM