Vista...a "work-in-progess" O/S..from MS's mouth. :)

[r2rX]

Ballmer, from Microsoft, has FINALLY admitted that Vista is an unfinished product...a BETA product.



More than a year after Windows Vista's release, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this morning acknowledged some of the operating system's shortcomings -- calling it a "work in progress" during a speech to the company's Most Valuable Professionals conference in Seattle. He also acknowledged Windows XP's fans, but he stopped short of committing to further extend the older operating system's life.



Source: Ballmer says Vista is a 'work in progress', Ballmer: Vista a 'work in progress', Tech Tracks | Microsoft's Ballmer gives unvarnished take on Windows, online businesses | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog

r2rX :D

 

[garysgold]

Isn't all software a work in progress up until it isn't being supported anymore. When you do an update or an upgrade, aren't you just buying/downloading and installing the new code (hopefully its progress, but maybe not always) that it adds and/or changes in the old software. Win98 was progress from 95. XP was progress from Win2k. Vista is new (like 95 was) and will be a work in progress until it is relegated to the history books as happens to all that go before.

Just my take & HO.

Gary

 

[Eragon22125]

I don't understand if Windows Vista is still a work in progress, then why is Microsoft already working on a new OS Called "Windows 5"

.... They should keep working on Vista and not a new OS.


-Eragon22125

 

[garysgold]

Hi Eraggon22125,

Welcome to the forums.

If they want to remain a viable company they cannot put 100% of their resources into the present or the future. I am sure they are working on both. There has been an SP2 for every other OS they have put out and I would be extremely suprised if there isn't one for Vista down the road. Probably plenty of updates in between.

Gary

 

[Eragon22125]

Hi Eraggon22125,

Welcome to the forums.

If they want to remain a viable company they cannot put 100% of their resources into the present or the future. I am sure they are working on both. There has been an SP2 for every other OS they have put out and I would be extremely suprised if there isn't one for Vista down the road. Probably plenty of updates in between.

Gary

Very true! And thanks for the warm welcoming!

Eragon22125

(P.s. Sweet! I live in Maine too )

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Eragon22125,

Welcome to the Forums!

Have a look at this.

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-news/138586-microsoft-finally-confirms-windows-7-2010-launch.html

I hope you find it as interesting as I did.


Later Ted

 

[Dwarf]

Hi Eragon,

When Microsoft release an operating system (OS), they don't just release it and say "That's it. OS finished." Instead, they offer support for that system for a period of time. During that time, patches and fixes are developed for that OS to remedy any issues that people discover through using the OS, whether they be revealed by legitimate users or 'hackers' whose sole purpose is to find exploits or weaknesses in the OS and use them for their own means. Despite extensive testing by Microsoft, it is impossible to have an OS that is completely water-tight. At the same time, they are also working on the next generation OS so that it will be ready for release (whenever that will be). If by "work-in-progress" you mean continual development, then to some degree I agree with what you say. It is certainly NOT a BETA product.
Dwarf

 

[garysgold]

No, it is definetly not a Beta product. Once I learned something about how Vista functions and some do's and don'ts it has become very stable and fast for me. Especially post SP1.
Gary

 

[r2rX]

It's one thing to keep in mind that software is updatable (thus its life span) and there's a difference between stating it's in BETA stage....which we have been paying how many hundreds of dollars for?

....come on.

r2rX :D

 

[dmex]

If you guys try any longhorn builds you can understand beta but Vista is a long way from how it started with Memory leaks using all the memory overnight, stuttery sound, aero permanatly crashing your desktop, winfs losing files, games crashing using DX9, BSODs and millions of other unexplainable errors I rember getting while trying them out...

Vista RTM with was the only release with all the code I would call finished unlike the longhorn betas...

 

[r2rX]

Vista is "complete", in regards to bugs that people have endured since the BETA phase up to now.....but the principle (at least in regards to what Ballmer was saying) was that Vista (as complete as it is) is a beta concept.

As complete as Vista is, we've all been guinea pigs for MS in order for them to polish off their next O/S which was, techincally, what we've been waiting for (and expecting Vista to be).

So, as much as it is stable, is worth hundreds of dollars when, the OS we're expecting, is only coming out in 2-3 years?

.....hmm.

r2rX