{"id":548310,"date":"2006-03-22T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548310-vista-still-long-way-off.html"},"modified":"2006-03-22T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2006-03-22T17:20:16","slug":"vista-still-long-way-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548310-vista-still-long-way-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Vista still long way off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Vista, formerly code named Longhorn, has been delayed again, and this time it will miss the crucial US holiday season. SeattlePI.com reports that Microsoft estimates an \u201cearly 2007 release date\u201d.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIt\u2019s the largest undertaking by the company since it upgraded the operating system in 1995\u201d reports Forbes.com. Complexities in the software, like security gaps and quality-related testing, are being sited as the major constraints. Windows XP was released in 2001, and the desktop operating system upgrade is now long overdue.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The knock-on effect of this delayed release to the rest of the PC market can be huge. PC manufacturers like Dell and HP bargained on the new operating system to boost sales. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Memory chip makers like Samsung would also be smiling as soon as Vista hits the shelves: it demands a lot more RAM than the current OS, forcing users to have more memory.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft alone might lose as much as $500 million in sales by missing the lucrative holiday buying season in the US. This figure increases exponentially for an already sluggish desktop computer market.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Despite other revenue income streams like the Xbox, MSN online services and wireless and small business services, Microsoft is still heavily dependant on Windows as a main source of income. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=39821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday afternoon Microsoft announced yet another delay in delivering the new Windows operating system \u2013 called Vista \u2013 to the market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}