Top 25 Explanations by MS Programmers when VISTA doesnt work.

> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812973/

> They're looking to correct all 25% during the soon to be announced delay.
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> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812973/
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> Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January
> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> The Associated Press
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> Updated: 2:30 p.m. ET July 11, 2006
> CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday
> there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating
> system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January
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> However, Gates said at a presentation in Cape Town to Microsoft software
> partners that he would delay the launch if beta testing uncovered
> shortcomings.
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> (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
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> The Vista software has been subject to a number of delays. Beta users of
> software test products before their full commercial release in an effort
> to uncover problems.
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> "We got to get this absolutely right," Gates said. "If the feedback from
> the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay
> it."
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> He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing
> Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator.
> He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their
> own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as
> Microsoft.
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> Gates said he hoped the next version of Office would be ready in December.
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> In a separate speech Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed that the
> company's customers will never again face as long a wait between new
> versions of Windows software as they're enduring now.
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> "I think it’s probably important for me to tell our partners that, rest
> assured, we will never have a gap between Windows releases as long as the
> one between XP and Windows Vista," Ballmer told thousands of Microsoft
> product resellers and other clients at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner
> Conference in Boston.
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> Ballmer tried to reassure customers that the wait will be worthwhile.
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> He said it was "fair" to say Vista has been a long time coming. But he
> also called it "absolutely a blockbuster release."
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> Ted Schadler, an analyst from Forrester Research, said Ballmer was
> “selling hard” in pledging shorter wait times for future versions of
> Windows.
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> “Microsoft’s business is built on developers, who build products and
> applications that run on Microsoft Windows,” Schadler said. “He needs to
> reassure these people that he’s not going to let them down again, and that
> it’s worth it to switch to Vista.”
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> Schadler said Microsoft could make good on Ballmer’s pledge to shorten new
> Windows version wait times by making more incremental improvements than
> the company has promised in Vista.
> “This time they really shot for the moon,” Schadler said.
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> The new Vista operating system will have speech and visual recognition
> tools and be backed by strong security measures, he said. It would move
> away from reliance on easy-to-crack passwords to greater reliance on
> visual identification and software shields on Internet attacks.
>
> World's largest market
> The biggest market for these products soon will be China, Gates said. He
> said China was already the world's No. 1 mobile phone market and he
> expected it to be the world's top PC, broadband and software market within
> a few years.
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> "Everybody needs to be in China," he said. "Even if only 20 percent of
> the population is IT-active," he said, this is a huge number given the
> country's 1.3 billion population.
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> China's piracy of Microsoft software will decline, he predicted, as China
> becomes a bigger producer of intellectual property and sees "it will
> benefit as much as us" by implementing strong intellectual-property
> protection. He expects the Chinese government — which accounts for what
> he said was 35 percent of the country's software sales — to buy all its
> software legally this year.
>
> Gates is in South Africa to attend a Microsoft-sponsored forum of
> government leaders which gathers several African heads of state and former
> President Clinton in debates on how technology can improve the continent's
> competitiveness.
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> Gates and his wife, Melinda, also are visiting projects supported by their
> philanthropic organization, which has invested billions of dollars to
> fight diseases such as HIV-AIDS and malaria.
>
> Shares of Microsoft dipped 8 cents to $23.42 in pre-market trading.
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> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...mbrellaPR.mspx
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1987146,00.asp
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> "Since Microsoft announced last month that Office 2007 was not likely to
> make the January launch date, Microsoft's Vista team has been evaluating
> whether to delay the launch of Vista, as well, sources say. Many testers
> say they are doubtful that Vista will be of sufficient quality for the
> product to go to manufacturing this fall. Speaking of Vista, Microsoft
> also announced on July 11 at the Worldwide Partner Conference that more
> than 200 customers are now deploying Vista Beta 2 in production. (A scary
> prospect, from what we've heard from testers about Beta 2!)"
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>> Top 25 Explanations by Programmers when their programs don't work.
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>> 1. Strange...
>> 2. I've never heard about that.
>> 3. It did work yesterday.
>> 4. Well, the program needs some fixing.
>> 5. How is this possible?
>> 6. The machine seems to be broken.
>> 7. Has the operating system been updated?
>> 8. The user has made an error again.
>> 9. There is something wrong in your test data.
>> 10. I have not touched that module!
>> 11. Yes yes, it will be ready in time.
>> 12. You must have the wrong executable.
>> 13. Oh, it's just a feature.
>> 14. I'm almost ready.
>> 15. Of course, I just have to do these small fixes.
>> 16. It will be done in no time at all.
>> 17. It's just some unlucky coincidense.
>> 18. I can't test everything!
>> 19. THIS can't do THAT.
>> 20. Didn't I fix it already?
>> 21. It's already there, but it has not been tested.
>> 22. It works, but it's not been tested.
>> 23. Somebody must have changed my code.
>> 24. There must be a virus in the application software.
>> 25. Even though it does not work, how does it feel?
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