So Soon ?

[Pulse]

According to the industry media reports, Windows 8 might be foisted on us as
soon as July 2011 and the next version of Server one year later: July 2012.

To be honest, both dates - but especially Windows 8's - seem, well, too
soon.

I'm still waiting for the publishing of Russinovich's Windows Internals 6th
ed. which is supposed to be covering Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
When I do get it, it will take me to sometime in 2011 to get it read! Then
it's an all new "mind blowing" (as Microsoft puts it) version that I have to
learn about? Why bother, eh?

It seems like too much too soon for me. I feel that way. I thought NT was a
mature product and didn't need constant changing.

I know Microsoft can't rest on its laurels, but then again can't they get
all "excited" about some other product in their lineup for a while? Because
if we start having heart attacks, Microsoft, new computers won't be the
priority.

Instead, let's hear it for building up a Windows 7 ecosystem.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

According to the industry media reports, Windows 8 might be foisted on us as
soon as July 2011 and the next version of Server one year later: July 2012.

I don't know anything about Microsoft's schedules, but those dates
seem *extremely* unlikely to me.

 

[johnbee]

I don't know anything about Microsoft's schedules, but those dates
seem *extremely* unlikely to me.

Surely Microsoft are aware that a very large number of users, both home
and business have the practice of skipping at least one version and
never upgrade either system nor PC nor even software versions, if favour
of buying all new.. They will presumably have the idea of either changing
that practice or going along with it and releasing new systems faster -
if I think of it somebody else will, for sure.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Surely Microsoft are aware that a very large number of users, both home
and business have the practice of skipping at least one version and
never upgrade either system nor PC nor even software versions, if favour
of buying all new.. They will presumably have the idea of either changing
that practice or going along with it and releasing new systems faster -
if I think of it somebody else will, for sure.

I think that Microsoft, just as almost all other software companies,
would like to release a new version as soon as possible, The main
reason is that if you sell a customer version x of a product, you
can't get him as a customer again until you have version x+1 to sell
him.

But what you apparently don't realize is that when you deal with
software as big and as complex as an operating system, it takes a
great deal of time to develop it and to test it adequately. There is
always (again, in all software companies) a lot of stress between the
Marketing people, who want to release today, and Quality Control, who
wants to wait until problems are fixed.