Vista Tutorial - Top 25 Explanations by MS Programmers when VISTA doesnt work.

Top 25 Explanations by Programmers when their programs don't work.

1. Strange...
2. I've never heard about that.
3. It did work yesterday.
4. Well, the program needs some fixing.
5. How is this possible?
6. The machine seems to be broken.
7. Has the operating system been updated?
8. The user has made an error again.
9. There is something wrong in your test data.
10. I have not touched that module!
11. Yes yes, it will be ready in time.
12. You must have the wrong executable.
13. Oh, it's just a feature.
14. I'm almost ready.
15. Of course, I just have to do these small fixes.
16. It will be done in no time at all.
17. It's just some unlucky coincidense.
18. I can't test everything!
19. THIS can't do THAT.
20. Didn't I fix it already?
21. It's already there, but it has not been tested.
22. It works, but it's not been tested.
23. Somebody must have changed my code.
24. There must be a virus in the application software.
25. Even though it does not work, how does it feel?

They're looking to correct all 25% during the soon to be announced delay.


Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812973/

Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January
Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
The Associated Press


Updated: 2:30 p.m. ET July 11, 2006
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday
there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating
system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January

However, Gates said at a presentation in Cape Town to Microsoft software
partners that he would delay the launch if beta testing uncovered
shortcomings.

(MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)

The Vista software has been subject to a number of delays. Beta users of
software test products before their full commercial release in an effort to
uncover problems.

"We got to get this absolutely right," Gates said. "If the feedback from
the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay
it."

He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing Vista
and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator. He said
the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their own
products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as Microsoft.

Gates said he hoped the next version of Office would be ready in December.

In a separate speech Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed that the
company's customers will never again face as long a wait between new
versions of Windows software as they're enduring now.

"I think it’s probably important for me to tell our partners that, rest
assured, we will never have a gap between Windows releases as long as the
one between XP and Windows Vista," Ballmer told thousands of Microsoft
product resellers and other clients at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner
Conference in Boston.

Ballmer tried to reassure customers that the wait will be worthwhile.

He said it was "fair" to say Vista has been a long time coming. But he also
called it "absolutely a blockbuster release."

Ted Schadler, an analyst from Forrester Research, said Ballmer was “selling
hard” in pledging shorter wait times for future versions of Windows.

“Microsoft’s business is built on developers, who build products and
applications that run on Microsoft Windows,” Schadler said. “He needs to
reassure these people that he’s not going to let them down again, and that
it’s worth it to switch to Vista.”

Schadler said Microsoft could make good on Ballmer’s pledge to shorten new
Windows version wait times by making more incremental improvements than the
company has promised in Vista.
“This time they really shot for the moon,” Schadler said.



The new Vista operating system will have speech and visual recognition tools
and be backed by strong security measures, he said. It would move away from
reliance on easy-to-crack passwords to greater reliance on visual
identification and software shields on Internet attacks.

World's largest market
The biggest market for these products soon will be China, Gates said. He
said China was already the world's No. 1 mobile phone market and he expected
it to be the world's top PC, broadband and software market within a few
years.

"Everybody needs to be in China," he said. "Even if only 20 percent of the
population is IT-active," he said, this is a huge number given the country's
1.3 billion population.

China's piracy of Microsoft software will decline, he predicted, as China
becomes a bigger producer of intellectual property and sees "it will benefit
as much as us" by implementing strong intellectual-property protection. He
expects the Chinese government — which accounts for what he said was 35
percent of the country's software sales — to buy all its software legally
this year.

Gates is in South Africa to attend a Microsoft-sponsored forum of government
leaders which gathers several African heads of state and former President
Clinton in debates on how technology can improve the continent's
competitiveness.

Gates and his wife, Melinda, also are visiting projects supported by their
philanthropic organization, which has invested billions of dollars to fight
diseases such as HIV-AIDS and malaria.

Shares of Microsoft dipped 8 cents to $23.42 in pre-market trading.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...mbrellaPR.mspx
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1987146,00.asp

"Since Microsoft announced last month that Office 2007 was not likely to
make the January launch date, Microsoft's Vista team has been evaluating
whether to delay the launch of Vista, as well, sources say. Many testers say
they are doubtful that Vista will be of sufficient quality for the product
to go to manufacturing this fall. Speaking of Vista, Microsoft also
announced on July 11 at the Worldwide Partner Conference that more than 200
customers are now deploying Vista Beta 2 in production. (A scary prospect,
from what we've heard from testers about Beta 2!)"



"John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
news:eJrkRVlpGHA.1140@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Top 25 Explanations by Programmers when their programs don't work.
>
> 1. Strange...
> 2. I've never heard about that.
> 3. It did work yesterday.
> 4. Well, the program needs some fixing.
> 5. How is this possible?
> 6. The machine seems to be broken.
> 7. Has the operating system been updated?
> 8. The user has made an error again.
> 9. There is something wrong in your test data.
> 10. I have not touched that module!
> 11. Yes yes, it will be ready in time.
> 12. You must have the wrong executable.
> 13. Oh, it's just a feature.
> 14. I'm almost ready.
> 15. Of course, I just have to do these small fixes.
> 16. It will be done in no time at all.
> 17. It's just some unlucky coincidense.
> 18. I can't test everything!
> 19. THIS can't do THAT.
> 20. Didn't I fix it already?
> 21. It's already there, but it has not been tested.
> 22. It works, but it's not been tested.
> 23. Somebody must have changed my code.
> 24. There must be a virus in the application software.
> 25. Even though it does not work, how does it feel?
>

Hello!

"Chad Harris" <Bushisamoron.net> wrote in message news:e1KokKmpGHA.1600@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812973/

Vista's law: If there is non-zero chance that it
will be delayed, it will be delayed. :>

Cheers, Roman

they can delay it all they want, then can even make 3 service packs after
they
launch it.

THe problem was rooted right in the start... vista will be crowned as the
worst
windows OS ever, and will cost microsoft billions... and bring the company
to its knees.

The next OS after vista however will be extreamly good.
After they recover from the stun that is....


"Chad Harris" <Bushisamoron.net> wrote in message
news:e1KokKmpGHA.1600@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> They're looking to correct all 25% during the soon to be announced delay.
>
>
> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13812973/
>
> Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January
> Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available
> The Associated Press
>
>
> Updated: 2:30 p.m. ET July 11, 2006
> CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday
> there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating
> system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January
>
> However, Gates said at a presentation in Cape Town to Microsoft software
> partners that he would delay the launch if beta testing uncovered
> shortcomings.
>
> (MSNBC is a Microsoft - NBC joint venture.)
>
> The Vista software has been subject to a number of delays. Beta users of
> software test products before their full commercial release in an effort
> to uncover problems.
>
> "We got to get this absolutely right," Gates said. "If the feedback from
> the beta tests shows it is not ready for prime time, I'd be glad to delay
> it."
>
> He said Microsoft was investing $8 billion to $9 billion in developing
> Vista and the company's next version of Office, its key cash-generator.
> He said the company's software partners, in developing and adapting their
> own products for the two launches, would invest 20 times as much as
> Microsoft.
>
> Gates said he hoped the next version of Office would be ready in December.
>
> In a separate speech Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed that the
> company's customers will never again face as long a wait between new
> versions of Windows software as they're enduring now.
>
> "I think it’s probably important for me to tell our partners that, rest
> assured, we will never have a gap between Windows releases as long as the
> one between XP and Windows Vista," Ballmer told thousands of Microsoft
> product resellers and other clients at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner
> Conference in Boston.
>
> Ballmer tried to reassure customers that the wait will be worthwhile.
>
> He said it was "fair" to say Vista has been a long time coming. But he
> also called it "absolutely a blockbuster release."
>
> Ted Schadler, an analyst from Forrester Research, said Ballmer was
> “selling hard” in pledging shorter wait times for future versions of
> Windows.
>
> “Microsoft’s business is built on developers, who build products and
> applications that run on Microsoft Windows,” Schadler said. “He needs to
> reassure these people that he’s not going to let them down again, and that
> it’s worth it to switch to Vista.”
>
> Schadler said Microsoft could make good on Ballmer’s pledge to shorten new
> Windows version wait times by making more incremental improvements than
> the company has promised in Vista.
> “This time they really shot for the moon,” Schadler said.
>
>
>
> The new Vista operating system will have speech and visual recognition
> tools and be backed by strong security measures, he said. It would move
> away from reliance on easy-to-crack passwords to greater reliance on
> visual identification and software shields on Internet attacks.
>
> World's largest market
> The biggest market for these products soon will be China, Gates said. He
> said China was already the world's No. 1 mobile phone market and he
> expected it to be the world's top PC, broadband and software market within
> a few years.
>
> "Everybody needs to be in China," he said. "Even if only 20 percent of
> the population is IT-active," he said, this is a huge number given the
> country's 1.3 billion population.
>
> China's piracy of Microsoft software will decline, he predicted, as China
> becomes a bigger producer of intellectual property and sees "it will
> benefit as much as us" by implementing strong intellectual-property
> protection. He expects the Chinese government — which accounts for what
> he said was 35 percent of the country's software sales — to buy all its
> software legally this year.
>
> Gates is in South Africa to attend a Microsoft-sponsored forum of
> government leaders which gathers several African heads of state and former
> President Clinton in debates on how technology can improve the continent's
> competitiveness.
>
> Gates and his wife, Melinda, also are visiting projects supported by their
> philanthropic organization, which has invested billions of dollars to
> fight diseases such as HIV-AIDS and malaria.
>
> Shares of Microsoft dipped 8 cents to $23.42 in pre-market trading.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/p...mbrellaPR.mspx
> http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1987146,00.asp
>
> "Since Microsoft announced last month that Office 2007 was not likely to
> make the January launch date, Microsoft's Vista team has been evaluating
> whether to delay the launch of Vista, as well, sources say. Many testers
> say they are doubtful that Vista will be of sufficient quality for the
> product to go to manufacturing this fall. Speaking of Vista, Microsoft
> also announced on July 11 at the Worldwide Partner Conference that more
> than 200 customers are now deploying Vista Beta 2 in production. (A scary
> prospect, from what we've heard from testers about Beta 2!)"
>
>
>
> "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message
> news:eJrkRVlpGHA.1140@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Top 25 Explanations by Programmers when their programs don't work.
>>
>> 1. Strange...
>> 2. I've never heard about that.
>> 3. It did work yesterday.
>> 4. Well, the program needs some fixing.
>> 5. How is this possible?
>> 6. The machine seems to be broken.
>> 7. Has the operating system been updated?
>> 8. The user has made an error again.
>> 9. There is something wrong in your test data.
>> 10. I have not touched that module!
>> 11. Yes yes, it will be ready in time.
>> 12. You must have the wrong executable.
>> 13. Oh, it's just a feature.
>> 14. I'm almost ready.
>> 15. Of course, I just have to do these small fixes.
>> 16. It will be done in no time at all.
>> 17. It's just some unlucky coincidense.
>> 18. I can't test everything!
>> 19. THIS can't do THAT.
>> 20. Didn't I fix it already?
>> 21. It's already there, but it has not been tested.
>> 22. It works, but it's not been tested.
>> 23. Somebody must have changed my code.
>> 24. There must be a virus in the application software.
>> 25. Even though it does not work, how does it feel?
>>
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