Vista's situation is much worse than Microsoft's disclosure

The postponement of the release of Windows Vista shows that the operating system is facing a huge problem, much more serious than Microsoft has announced until now.

A source close to it said that although Microsoft announced that it will only release the release date of Vista for a few weeks, in fact, the operating system will go to hardware and chip manufacturers after more than two months.

Instead of distributing to computer manufacturers on August 25 as originally scheduled, Microsoft will only release Vista on October 25. The first Vista trial review, scheduled for release in mid-July, was also delayed until August 25.

Microsoft only insisted on sticking to the Vista release timetable, but how specific the date is - the most important information they didn't say.

Earlier, Microsoft shocked the world technology industry by saying that Vista users will not be able to ship with computers before January 2007, although business customers will be able to touch it. This operating system is earlier, from November. This means that Microsoft and its hardware partners will miss out on the most exciting season of the year: Christmas shopping season lasts from the middle of the month. 11 to the end of December.

Microsoft only briefly explains this "few weeks" delay to improve its security functions. But obviously, a 2-month delay suggests that Vista's development process is deviating more rails than that. Not to mention, with the fact that every season missed Christmas, Microsoft now has nothing to lose, and they will be able to continue to postpone Vista at least once more, deep into 2007.

Sales of computers in the first and second quarter were always very slow. So now " January is the same as July, " said Joe Wilcox, analyst at Jupiter Research.

Thien Y