Waiting for Godot and/or Vista

I'm supposed to be an evangelist, not a cheerleader, so it's safe to say I was devastated to hear that Vista has slipped. 

Like Robert Scoble, who is commenting here, I've only just heard the news myself here at Mix06, and the first thought that came to my mind was that I'd rather have a stable release than a rushed one.

But the ramifications of this delay, however necessary it is, look lamentable.

From a developer perspective, this may mean that WinFX takes a bit longer to be broadly adopted.  Although the WinFX components also work downlevel on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Vista will be a major vehicle for WinFX delivery.  So we miss the chance for a major burst at the holidays.

The good news for developers who are working between now and release is that there is an abundant supply of increasingly polished beta WinFX bits, most of which now sport a Go-Live license. 

Right -- back to Mix06 to see some more of the cool things people have been doing with those WinFX bits.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 22, 2006
  PingBack from http://www.alexiablogs.com/?p=20
• Anonymous
  March 22, 2006
  Hooray for literarily allusive techie blogging (pity, though, about the release slip)!
• Anonymous
  May 10, 2006
  "Just weeks after the centennial of the birth of pioneering minimalist playwright Samuel Beckett, archivists analyzing papers from his Paris estate uncovered a small stack of blank paper that scholars are calling "the latest example of the late Irish-born writer's genius."
  
  The 23 blank pages, which literary experts presume is a two-act play composed sometime between 1973 and 1975, are already being heralded as one of the most ambitious works by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting For Godot..."
  
  
  http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47722
  
  ;)
• Anonymous
  June 28, 2007
  PingBack from http://robburke.net/2007/06/28/on-diluted-messages-and-inert-platforms/