Windows releases have been slipping a lot recently. Vista was pushed back a couple of times, and in hindsight, should have been pushed back further. The applications division is letting the Mac version of Office slip - so it seems to be lately in Redmond. I guess the company is too busy trying to push new formats upon the world, and fix the flaw that is Vista, to keep to a schedule. Another reason might be the Live initiatives, with the ’sky’ or ‘cloud’ concepts. (Pie in the sky when you die? … just good natured ribbing MS, you know, in the same vein that Bill Maher kids the President)
Finally, some good news had to come about. No one has a streak of bad luck this long. Announced quietly, in case something happens to the CD stamping machines, or the disc boxing machines, Windows Home Server will be available August 27th. Yes, I mean 2007. No price has been announced, as yet.
There are also no announcements of system builders having server systems configured and ready for sale. Perhaps those companies are waiting for the other shoe to drop. Perhaps there will be a large fanfare in September. Who knows? It does seem odd for there to be no fanfare, since this is not really a new product, but a facelift for an older one. Still from reports on the net and in magazines, the patient is like a new person, beautiful, and unrecognizable from before the surgery.
So why no trumpets, no new song, no print blowouts? Perhaps someone read my column about Microsoft learning to walk softly and let the code do the talking. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Right!
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