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Microsoft pulls Viridian features to avoid delays

Microsoft is changing three key features of the initial version of its Viridian hypervisor technology in an attempt to make its schedule of releasing Viridian within 180 days of completing Windows Server "Longhorn."

Do you think Microsoft's decision to get a product out the door on schedule, albeit missing some features, is the right one?

And its the only one that really matters. It's not a product until it ships.

...which is:

Are the missing features UNNECESSARY for use of the technology by 80% of the user base? If so, it's the right decision.

is the product as proposed for release SUFFICIENT for 80% of the user base? If so, it's the right decision.

Is Viridian hypervisor the only alternative for 80% of the user base? If not, it's probably the wrong decision for microsoft, but the right decision for us.

Is software expected to be perfect and complete? If so, you're living on the wrong planet, and shouldn't even be reading this.

This is just a normal way that Microsoft does business. They always push out products before they are complete and fully ready to release. I do not agree with their decision.

I have Vista to prove it. Loaded with useless junk and it takes forever to find what you want. If you need help, there are voluminous mounds of reading material to assist you, but who wants to read a volume when you're trying to do something simple and it should be intuitive? I thought with NT and 98 they had changed their ways, but it's not so. Still putting out buggy products and expecting the consumers to send them "error reports" so they can sort them out. The consumers erroneously expect an expensive software product to be error free, and usable. Stupid consumers. The big brother software parts work fine though. It's all a matter of what's important to whom.

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"This decision gives the software giant more time to complete projects such as Xen and VMware"

So MS are working on Xen and VMWare?