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Parece que estão apanhando para aprontar o Vista.
Microsoft delays Vista to 2007
Wednesday,
March 22, 2006 Posted: 0255 GMT (1055 HKT)
SEATTLE (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says
that it will not release the consumer version of its new Windows
operating system until January 2007, after previously saying it hoped
to release the software in time for the holiday season.
Windows Vista is Microsoft first major update to the company's
flagship operating system since Windows XP was released in late 2001.
The company will release some versions of the new operating system
for big businesses by November as planned, but the consumer version
would be held until January, Jim Allchin, co-president of the Microsoft
division that includes Windows, said Tuesday.
Allchin said the decision to delay the release came after
Microsoft realized that Vista would be completed several weeks later
than originally planned, in large part because of efforts to improve
security in the new system.
That was enough for some retailers, computer makers and other
corporate partners to say they would have trouble preparing for the
holiday season.
"The fact is that we wanted everybody in the industry to be ready
for this," Allchin told journalists and analysts in a conference call.
The delay in Windows Vista will come as a blow to Microsoft
partners who were looking forward to a new operating system to boost
holiday sales.
"It's a much bigger deal for the computer makers than it is for
anybody else," said David Smith, a vice president with Gartner Inc.
The delay means partners will be left with a fifth major holiday
season without a new version of the Windows operating system to promote.
"It's not the optimal situation, to be launching the
next-generation version of Windows right after the big holiday sales
season," said analyst Joe Wilcox with Jupiter Research.
A spokesman for Dell Inc. declined to comment on how the delay
might affect sales. In a statement released by Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard Co. said it supported Microsoft's decision to make
quality a priority in scheduling the operating system's release.
Wilcox said releasing the system in November to businesses would
likely help Microsoft - since its business sales are highly profitable
- while the delay in the consumer release would be most harmful to its
partners.
"You can play semantics and say that the operating system is
shipping in 2006, but if consumers can't buy it until 2007, PC
manufacturers don't have it to sell to them," Wilcox said. "This blow
falls on the partners."
The news sent Microsoft shares down 2.5 percent in late-session
trading, to $27.05. Earlier the stock fell 15 cents to close at $27.74
on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Allchin said the decision to delay the Vista release came after
Microsoft realized that Vista would be completed several weeks later
than originally planned, largely because of efforts to improve security
in the new system. Microsoft's Windows operating system has been an
immensely popular target of Internet attackers, leading to a major
companywide initiative to improve security in all its products.
That delay was enough for some retailers, computer makers and
other corporate partners to say they would have trouble preparing for
the holiday season. Allchin said troubling factors included the time it
takes to move computers from overseas manufacturers onto store shelves.
In an interview, Allchin said he suspects some computer makers may
give consumers who buy a new PC during the holidays a way to easily
upgrade once Vista becomes available. But he said he couldn't predict
how the delay might affect holiday season computer sales.
Analyst Matt Rosoff with independent research firm Directions on
Microsoft said he suspects computer makers are likely displeased with
the situation, but with Microsoft's stranglehold on the operating
system market they have little control over it.
"Certainly PC makers aren't going to be happy about it, but I
don't know exactly what they're going to do. They'll wait," he said.
"There's not a whole lot of choice at this point."
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