Windows Vista has been delayed again, meaning it won’t be available in time for the Christmas season.
“I was stunned,” says analyst Al Gillen of market researcher IDC. “I’m very surprised.” He had expected the product to be available no later than September. [David] Smith, of [market researcher Gartner Inc.], calls it a “black eye.” The Windows upgrade was originally expected by some analysts in 2003, but Microsoft launched a huge initiative to improve security and planned major improvements in the way the operating system stored and retrieved documents — which were later dropped as too ambitious.
Still, [Microsoft executive Jim] Allchin promises that it will be worth the long wait. “Everyone we show it to loves it,” he says. “We think people will be blown away.”
Now the question is, will Leopard beat Vista out of the gate?
Apple has seeded 10.4.6 update. I don’t think it’s important for Apple’s 10.5 Leopard to beat Vista out of the gate. It looks like both will come early 2007.
This will all be moot if Vista is able to, once and for all, overcome the bugs Windows is known for.
Before its release, everyone thought the movie Titanic was going to be a huge flop because of all of the delays. Turned out to be the most successful movie ever. I anticipate Vista could end up being the greatest OS to date.
I like that you specified “the movie Titanic,” thus insulating yourself from the criticism that “the boat Titanic actually was a rather huge flop.” Heh.
That question is a little difficult to answer. Over all sales of Macs in a given year are relatively easy to come by, but the percentage of computers (in use) that are Macs is going to be much much greater because Macs (on average) have a much longer usable life. Heck my old high school english teacher STILL had some Mac Classics in her room that people used to type up essays. Try and find a 15-20 year old PC still in service.
According to this article from April of last year the Mac market share (sales for the year at that time) was just under 4%. This put them in fifth place for total computer sales. But remember thats only percent of systems SOLD during a given time, not an aggregate of systems in use.
Man, I’d like to hear an old II-C boot up just for old time’s sake. God forbid you’d forget to have a 5 1/4 floppy in a drive, and you’d get a warning that sounded like a scoreboard at the end of the period!
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:18:13 am
Apple has seeded 10.4.6 update. I don’t think it’s important for Apple’s 10.5 Leopard to beat Vista out of the gate. It looks like both will come early 2007.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:08:06 pm
The timing couldn’t be better. Microsoft won’t be able to copy the new features in Leopard (whatever they may be).
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:29:31 pm
This will all be moot if Vista is able to, once and for all, overcome the bugs Windows is known for.
Before its release, everyone thought the movie Titanic was going to be a huge flop because of all of the delays. Turned out to be the most successful movie ever. I anticipate Vista could end up being the greatest OS to date.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:34:32 pm
I like that you specified “the movie Titanic,” thus insulating yourself from the criticism that “the boat Titanic actually was a rather huge flop.” Heh.
March 22nd, 2006 at 1:57:31 pm
What overall percentage of computers are Macs? Just curious. Being honest here, no sarcasm implied.
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:21:44 pm
That question is a little difficult to answer. Over all sales of Macs in a given year are relatively easy to come by, but the percentage of computers (in use) that are Macs is going to be much much greater because Macs (on average) have a much longer usable life. Heck my old high school english teacher STILL had some Mac Classics in her room that people used to type up essays. Try and find a 15-20 year old PC still in service.
According to this article from April of last year the Mac market share (sales for the year at that time) was just under 4%. This put them in fifth place for total computer sales. But remember thats only percent of systems SOLD during a given time, not an aggregate of systems in use.
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:32:07 pm
Man, I’d like to hear an old II-C boot up just for old time’s sake. God forbid you’d forget to have a 5 1/4 floppy in a drive, and you’d get a warning that sounded like a scoreboard at the end of the period!
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:36:20 pm
Quoth Buford: “you’d get a warning that sounded like a scoreboard at the end of the period!”
Madness . . . we all have MADNESS ON THE BRAIN!!!!!!
Gooooo Leopard! Beeeat Vista!
March 22nd, 2006 at 2:40:58 pm
LOL True!
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:49:08 pm
Come on David, give us some comments and inside scoop on Vista. ;-)
March 22nd, 2006 at 9:49:28 pm
I mean, what is the point of working for the enemy if you’re not going to do a little bit of spying?
March 23rd, 2006 at 3:15:38 am
Sorry Andrew, I happen to like having a job, no gossiping about work from me.