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Microsoft's Allchin: Windows Vista won’t RTM next week

Posted by Steven Parker on 19 October 2006 - 12:14 · 24 comments & 13255 views

Thanks Steve from bink.nu. I guess that settles that! Windows Vista is not ready to RTM next week, we'll all have to wait just a little longer after all.

Vista is not on track to be released to manufacturing on October 25, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft's platforms and services division.

"We won't RTM (release to manufacturing) in a week," Allchin told MJ Foley on October 18. "We are in pretty good shape. And there are still months before (the January 2007) launch."

Allchin said Microsoft is looking at Vista across five categories right now to determine whether it's RTM-ready.

The five: Reliability, security, performance, driver coverage and application compatibility. While some of these categories — such as driver coverage and app compatibility — may not be as robust as many would expect in order for Vista to RTM, Microsoft looks at things a bit differently, Allchin said.

"We have to be done with Vista before the ecosystem can finish the rest," Allchin said.

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(5 replies) #1 Posted by slimy on 19 Oct 2006 - 12:24: Good. Let them keep working on it until it's perfect

(1 reply) #2 Posted by werejag on 19 Oct 2006 - 12:28: can you hear the flushing sound? yep its microsoft

#3 Posted by b0m8er on 19 Oct 2006 - 12:35: As long as I can go and pick up my copy on feb 1st I don't care when it RTMs

#4 Posted by pallavsuri on 19 Oct 2006 - 12:44: hahahaha yo go ms go

#5 Posted by chorpeac on 19 Oct 2006 - 12:58: Wow....wonder if the scrolling text reader on the Microsoft building is stopped or continuing?

#6 Posted by mohan_168 on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:04: The five: Reliability, security, performance, driver coverage and application compatibility. You will get all of these + some goodies with Vista SP1 till then use the half-baked cake.

#7 Posted by yakumo on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:04: yeah thanks steve

<cough read your own articles comments cough>

always wondered when I'd have the chance to say that

#8 Posted by Lexcyn on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:43: Yeah, they really need to work on driver coverage.

#9 Posted by bigl523 on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:54: what does rtm stand for?

edit: sorry didnt read the article fully

(1 reply) #10 Posted by Leo Natan on 19 Oct 2006 - 13:58: If it comes on time, but has many bugs, you flame MS for releasing it not ready. If they take their time to test it and remove bugs, you flame MS for not releasing it on time.

(1 reply) #11 Posted by pcknowledge982439 on 19 Oct 2006 - 14:45: I still think its gonna RTM before/on October 25.

#12 Posted by IceBreakerG on 19 Oct 2006 - 15:28: RTM stands for Release to Manufacturing.

#13 Posted by superhuman on 19 Oct 2006 - 17:20: really responsible for the quality of product. Good. good.

#14 Posted by Gotenks98 on 19 Oct 2006 - 19:39: I actually came from a meeting this morning with some of vista's developers, they say it is ready for next week. I believe there is alot of confusion going on at Redmond. They are not all on the same page.

#15 Posted by excalpius on 19 Oct 2006 - 20:25: That's right, just keep rushing it...no one will notice...just keep rushing it. Sigh.

Windows Vista - Slouching towards Bethlehem

W.B Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

#16 Posted by strekship on 20 Oct 2006 - 00:52: I think they will use the lessons learned during the Vista beta cycle to avoid the same problems next time around.

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