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Microsoft Shows Off an Impressive Windows Vista, But Are the Holes Fixed and Will it Be Delayed Again?
Saturday, June 24th, 2006
In January 2007 Microsoft plans to launch its new operating system, Windows Vista, and usher in a
new era in product quality, customer satisfaction and software market share. Digital Journal met up with Microsoft to discuss delays, security problems and what the company plans to do to save itself.
Digital Journal — “We are still planning to launch [Windows Vista] in January but sometime in Q1 is expected,” Barry Goffe, Director of Windows Product Management, tells me. “It’s quality-driven, not date-driven.”
His response suggests more delays with Vista, and it’s the type of non-answer that all Microsoft execs now live by — they’re wishy-washy but cover every base in the event the company delays the launch again.
But then Goffe surprises me. In a downtown Toronto boardroom where he met Digital Journal to demonstrate new features of the upcoming Windows Vista, we discuss the heavily-reported fact that Microsoft is having difficulty sticking to a release date. He refuses to commit the company to a January launch, saying, “I wouldn’t bet my kid’s life on it.” DigitalJournal.com - Digital Culture For Creative Minds
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