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Vista Delay in Europe Will Hurt Partners, Consumers
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Microsoft and European Community regulators need to find common ground when it comes to 
Windows Vista, and do it soon, industry watchers are saying.
The long-awaited operating system’s European debut could be delayed by regulators for anti-competition reasons. But a later arrival of Vista is likely to do more harm than good, said Roger Kay, the president of Endpoint Technologies Associates, in Wayland, Mass, who said he believes customers and partners will suffer the consequences.
Kay argued in a new paper that getting Vista to the European market at the same time the operating system launches in the United States is critical. A delay, he wrote, could have meaningful economic consequences for Microsoft’s European partners and customers.
"It would be an oversimplification to say that it’s just a matter of Old Socialist Europe putting up artificial barriers to Unfettered Capitalism as represented by Microsoft, or that with malevolent intelligence a rapacious behemoth is intent on looting a helpless region. Both sides have a point," Kay wrote. Analyst: Vista Delay in Europe Will Hurt Partners, Consumers
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