21 Mar 2006 @ 10:46 PM
Apparently, Microsoft is still running into issues with Vista, even after deleting several features from the original Longhorn plan. They’ve announced an updated availability date, and it’s 2007! For those keeping score, Longhorn was originally planned for a 2004 release.
They delayed it until 2005 for security issues. At that point, Allchin promised WinFS would be in the release.
Four months after that announcement, MS announced the removal of WinFS from the 2006 release.
Eight months after that, there was rampant speculation that the 2006 date was optimistic. MS denied any such thing.
Just recently, EFI booting support was pulled from the planned Vista release.
Wonder when it will ship and what will be in it.
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[…] It’s been a couple months since Microsoft announced it was removing EFI boot capability from Windows Vista. Now, they’ve announced they’re removing a feature called PC Sync, which was meant to keep documents consistent between two or more computers. Yet another feature (dubious though it may be) that has been sacrificed to the almighty “Ship It By January” gods. At this rate, they’ll release Vista as XP Service Pack 3. […]
[…] Ah, the most surprising news from Microsoft since removing PC Sync or removing EFI support came today. WinFS is dead. Really, this time. Previously, they removed WinFS from the Vista release, but promised it would be available separately soon after Vista was released in 2005. Since the 2005 date for Vista has slipped to 2007, you’d think they’d have enough time to get WinFS working, but apparently not. […]