This is exactly what Microsoft does: vaporware. This is why it's frustrating and stagnates the whole industry. When were the features of Longhorn first announced? How many other companies could have been working on them but no longer felt it was economically viable?
I would guess that Microsoft is in anti-trust violation by doing this. They shouldn't be allowed to pre-announce software by any more than six months and should have to pay out the wazoo for every day they're late.
I think Apple's done this a few times...
But I think it's too strict to have to announce it 6 months from gold. It's only really lying when they say it'll ship, but then never ship it. All their estimations were, well, estimations.
Kickaha and Amorph couldn't moderate themselves out of a paper bag. Abdicate responsibility and succumb to idiocy. Two years of letting a member make personal attacks against others, then stepping aside when someone won't put up with it. Not only that but go ahead and shut down my posting priviledges but not the one making the attacks. Not even the common decency to abide by their warning (afer three days of absorbing personal attacks with no mods in sight), just shut my posting down and then say it might happen later if a certian line is crossed. Bullshit flag is flying, I won't abide by lying and coddling of liars who go off-site, create accounts differing in a single letter from my handle with the express purpose to decieve and then claim here that I did it. Everyone be warned, kim kap sol is a lying, deceitful poster.
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
But I think it's too strict to have to announce it 6 months from gold. It's only really lying when they say it'll ship, but then never ship it. All their estimations were, well, estimations.
Companies should be allowed to do it, but not once they've abused their position as market leader. That's what IBM did and have been forcibly reserved since then. They're doing fine but the market is better off for having done it. Microsoft abuses their ability to pre-announce, I think that's obvious to most people.
FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation. I've also heard the D as 'Doubt'.
Given Disinformation isn't actually a real word I think you'd find FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. That's the only definition I've ever heard in fact and it was brought about by a former IBM employee describing their sales tactics.
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Originally posted by bunge
This is exactly what Microsoft does: vaporware. This is why it's frustrating and stagnates the whole industry. When were the features of Longhorn first announced? How many other companies could have been working on them but no longer felt it was economically viable?
I would guess that Microsoft is in anti-trust violation by doing this. They shouldn't be allowed to pre-announce software by any more than six months and should have to pay out the wazoo for every day they're late.
I think Apple's done this a few times...
But I think it's too strict to have to announce it 6 months from gold. It's only really lying when they say it'll ship, but then never ship it. All their estimations were, well, estimations.
Now I guess they should have banned me rather than just shut off posting priviledges, because kickaha and Amorph definitely aren't going to like being called to task when they thought they had it all ignored *cough* *cough* I mean under control. Just a couple o' tools.
Don't worry, as soon as my work resetting my posts is done I'll disappear forever.
Originally posted by Placebo
I think Apple's done this a few times...
But I think it's too strict to have to announce it 6 months from gold. It's only really lying when they say it'll ship, but then never ship it. All their estimations were, well, estimations.
Companies should be allowed to do it, but not once they've abused their position as market leader. That's what IBM did and have been forcibly reserved since then. They're doing fine but the market is better off for having done it. Microsoft abuses their ability to pre-announce, I think that's obvious to most people.
Originally posted by dglow
Don't think the D = 'Dissent'. A definition here.
FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation. I've also heard the D as 'Doubt'.
Given Disinformation isn't actually a real word I think you'd find FUD = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. That's the only definition I've ever heard in fact and it was brought about by a former IBM employee describing their sales tactics.