Further Delays for Windows Vista: "Microsoft[base ']s track record is clear; it consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases," say Gartner analysts in a research note to clients earlier this week. The release of the Microsoft Windows "Vista" OS is already missing this year's big end-of-year selling season and according to the official schedule won't appear on the horizon as a finished and shipping product until January of 2007. This latest report suggests the Vista deadline will slip even further. [Financial Times]
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Native Speaker: Tame Bear surmised back in January (see "Apple Rosetta Stealth", Jan 20, 2006) that Apple was laying the groundwork for everyone to run Windows apps on Intel Macintosh computers -- without running the Microsoft Windows OS! Now Robert X. Cringely has picked up this same theme, reminding readers that Apple already has a license to implement the Windows XP API, and they can do it natively on their new Intel Macs. So Windows XP users could get a Mac to run all their current software apps, and ditch the security-flawed Windows OS in the same move. Can't wait for Windows Vista? Why bother when everything it offers is already available and shipping in Mac OS X? [PBS.org]
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