What Road Ahead for Microsoft and Windows?

This article reports on Microsoft, which has once again pushed back the release date for the update to Windows XP. The update, formerly known as Longhorn, is now known as Windows Vista and has been over five years in the making. The new release date for the consumer version is early 2007. The author...

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Publicado en:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 21 - 24
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Association for Computing Machinery Jul2006
Materias:	Windows (Graphical user interfaces) Microsoft Corp. Computer software development BETA (Computer program language) Commercial product testing Computer systems Computer software
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Sumario:	This article reports on Microsoft, which has once again pushed back the release date for the update to Windows XP. The update, formerly known as Longhorn, is now known as Windows Vista and has been over five years in the making. The new release date for the consumer version is early 2007. The author reviews some past problems that Microsoft has encountered when attempting to make changes to its software due to the approximately 50 million lines of code of Windows. Microsoft released a beta version of Vista in August 2005.