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Story: Why Vista may be delayed until Easter

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Why would anyone care if Vista ever arrives?

It is an unusable completely outdated and malware infested platform. Even if it arrives now, next year or the year after it is behind modern OS like Apples by several year and Apple will be raising the bar substantially early in the new year.

Hard to appear competitive when your platform is running on concepts and code obsolete for decades. A simple comparison would be VERY embarrassing especially with the state of the Vista beta and it's likelihood of substantial improvements by next year.

Longhorn / Vista was promised originally for the 2002/2003 time frame with features intended to compete with Apple's OS-X four versions ago. Any of the real improvement have long since been dropped. While Microsoft is still desperate to mimic what it can of Apples innovations they are pale, buggy and crappie imitations of long since replaced or improved concepts.

It has to be very difficult to make a case for Windows with informed clients. No wonder the rats are leaving the Microsoft ship for retirement or anything they can find that isn't a huge embarrassment for them.

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