Re: MS's Excruciating Update Cycles

Carlos and Herfried,

If I should gues than one of my guesses is that some persons (mostly that is
in a company Marketing) have listen to much to some customers.

I have seen these dotnet newsgroups full of complaints why Visual Studio Net
2005 was not yet released yet while the Beta 2 was so good. For that the Go
Live license was created.

Those same people are now crying about service packs. What is the purpose of
a Service pack if it is not ready yet.

As I said just my thought,

Cor



"Carlos J. Quintero [VB MVP]" <carlosq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in
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Hi Cor,

I think that guessing is not one of the things that we should do, as well
not advice Microsoft.

Really? As any business (software-related or not) book states, it is
paramount for any commercial company to listen to his customers, which is
also common sense. It is also common sense to fix bugs as soon as
possible. If you end doing poor products, people won´t buy them, revenues
will suffer and shareholders will get nothing... most organizations are
willing to listen to customers and to learn from experiences and opinions.
There are things that are unique to MS given its dominance of the Windows
and developer tools markets, but any other company could not afford long
periods without service packs.

:-)

Just my 2 cents.

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Carlos J. Quintero

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