News out of Redmond this week notes that the latest Vista beta has been delayed from December 2005 to God Knows When.
That’s not surprising, so why post about it? Because an MS quote in the story is just wonderful:
“Microsoft announced in a conference call on Tuesday that no Windows Vista CTP would be released for November, with the development focus shifting to a ‘quality based schedule, rather than a calendar date one.’ ”
When did Microsoft ever even adhere to a “calendar date one”?
Other fun stuff from Amitabh Srivastava, head of Microsoft’s Windows engineering efforts:
“Arivastava detailed a new engineering process employed for Vista in which Microsoft ‘developed tools to catch bugs early on in a really automated way.’ Because the system ‘verifies the quality of the code before it is integrated into the process,’ daily builds are of ‘good quality,’ he said.”
Yowza.
Via Beta News
