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Microsoft's Office for the Web Will be Ready No Time Soon

First, you say it took 6 years to roll out vista. Vista was released 5 years to the day after Windows XP! Are you saying the rolling out of vista started before XP shipped? You shouldn't lie, even if it's meant as a joke. With XP SP2, they only worked 3 years on vista.

Secondly, about the comparison to Apple.

1) Microsoff MUST announce products months ahead of time, so that corporation can prepare, get in the programs, plan their budgets, etc. They are not making consumer products. This is how the corporate want Microsoft to be: warn them far in advance of what they're going to do, too early if necessary. The government also wants to see the three year plans for Microsoft.

Look how bad the MobileMe roll out was, when a company decides to launch complex services without preparing everyone and all the groups.

2) We heard of OS X Leopard for two years before it was released, and it was delayed by the iPhone. Now we keep hearing about SnowLeopard, and it's nowhere to be found.

Thirdly, we're in December, with the Christmas vacation coming up, there are only a few more days in 2008. Many blog entries right now are trying to create news around claims of delays. There is no point in launching any beta for anything right now, there won't be anyone there to handle the incoming problems, and few testers would be paying attention anyway.