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O.P. Vista delay forces rethink
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Originally posted by Australianit News
MICROSOFT will overhaul its product release plans after delays to the launch of its next operating system, chief executive Steve Ballmer said.
"We attempted something that was beyond the planning and conceptualisation of the system," Mr Ballmer told the Britain's Financial Times in reference to the "Windows Vista" operating system, which is now planned to be released late next year.
"The product cycle has been longer than it should have been," he told the newspaper.
After problems developing the software, Microsoft is set to miss its original target date for the successor to the Windows XP operating system by about a year.
The company hopes to launch Vista simultaneously with a new version of the Office suite of applications, in what the FT called the company's most significant new product cycle since Windows 95;
Bruised by the Vista delays, Microsoft plans to release more frequent, less ambitious versions of the widely used software in what is a major shift in its business strategy, the newspaper said.
"In the last year and a half we've done a lot of revamping of the engineering and the processes," Mr Ballmer said.
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