Thursday, May 10th, 2007
Microsoft falls back on what it knows best: shipping an incomplete product
A notable quote from Gordon Haff (I would have recommended Xen…):
“Those guys just can’t get a product out the door to save their lives. Not having live migrate a year from now–talk about behind the times. Windows development is just broken,” Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said. “For a (version) 1.0 virtualization offering to be missing critical features a year hence puts Microsoft in a truly bad market position, perhaps to the point where they should seriously consider partnering with VMware.”
An even more humorous quote from Microsoft:
In a blog posting, the general manager of virtualization strategy, Mike Neil, said the company was making some “tough decisions” in order to meet its schedule.
“Shipping is a feature too,” Neil said.
I absolutely love it. “Shipping is a feature too” – I wonder if Stephen will add that to his list of “feature” posts. VMware and Xen are so far ahead of Microsoft, you have to wonder why they’re shipping it at all… they could ship the hypervisor later independent of the OS. Can you say OOA (Obsolete on Arrival)?
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May 16th, 2007 at 1:36 am
tecosystems » links for 2007-05-16 said:
[...] Michael Dolan Dot Com » Microsoft falls back on what it knows best: shipping an incomplete product ” ‘Shipping is a feature too’ – I wonder if Stephen will add that to his list of ‘feature’ posts.” – Alex beat me to it (tags: shipping isafeature AlexKing michaeldolan) [...]