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And that's why . . .

. . . you never commit to a delivery date. Because then you commit yourself to
hitting it. And that's been the biggest problem Vista and Leopard have both faced.
It's not like end users, in either case, would have been bothered by another 6-12
months delay.

I don't think Vista obsession was the real reason why there are issues - Mac sales
have risen since the release of Vista, without a new version of OS X. The real
reason, I suspect, is internal distraction - i.e. the iPhone, AppleTV, new (non-
touch) iPod firmware all needed development and QA - and you can't just hire more
and throw them at it at the END of a project.

(Hence it's not a case of putting more resources into development than marketing
or hardware design. Or rather that the decision needed to be made 2 years ago,
when someone underestimated the amount of work).

Mary, for what it's worth, it's always been possible to find Mac users with
complaints about OS X, and OS X upgrades - they were certainly there with Tiger.

There's definitely more issues and snagging bugs this time, but I didn't think that
was the issue people have with Vista?

The negative statements I've seen have all related to it's resource requirements and
features like UAC, rather than it being a mass of bugs. (A shame really as the 'under
the hood' improvements in security are probably a worthwhile upgrade for most
Windows users, but people don't 'get' paying for non-visual features - hence the
daft 3D dock in Leopard).

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