Bill said in an interview that there’s a 80 percent chance for Windows Vista to be ready for its scheduled release in January. That means there is a 20 percent chance for another Vista delay.
According to a Dow Jones Newswires report, Gates told Microsoft software partners in South Africa this week that the operating system could be delayed yet again if beta testers turn up problems (via news.com).
[...] Per Microsoft release, Windows Vista is out by January of 2007 but a number of indicators say otherwise because of NVidia bugs, Audio problems and unconfirmed crashes of all sorts. A lot of groups and people seem reluctant to believe that the software giant is going to hit its’ date. Microsoft Vista Blog posted that Gartner estimates the release date pushed as far as the second quarter, Goldman Sachs analyst Rick Sherlund bets on a March or April date, while Bill Gates says he’s only 80 percent confident of the January deadline. [...]
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I said there was an 80% chance of shipping on time. That doesn’t mean a 20% chance of delay, it just means a 20% chance that we won’t ship when expected. We *could* ship it early.
/makes note to hire fewer Vincents
Haha, yeah you could Bill, you could…
Wanna bet?
http://wilshipley.com/blog/2006/07/note-to-bill-gates-ill-take-your-bet.html