Windows Vista delay in Europe?
Microsoft has raised the possibility that it might delay the introduction of its new Vista Windows operating system in Europe. The reason for this would be the dependency on the European Commission’s antitrust requirements.
Microsoft said in a statement it made concrete proposals to the European Union’s executive Commission, responding to its concerns about new features in Vista. “Once we receive the Commission’s response, we will know whether the Commission is seeking additional product design changes that would result in delay in Europe,” it said (via news.com).
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3 opinions for Windows Vista delay in Europe?
Derek
Sep 8, 2006 at 7:53 pm
I’m glad to see that Microsoft is taking this approach. Their seemingly never-ending problems in Europe (and along with rumblings in Asia) added a lot to the negative PR surrounding Vista’s eventual release.
The new RC1 build on MSDN also includes several European languages - I haven’t investigated these yet, but I suspect that they are probably without the Windows Media Player.
PsychoDude
Sep 26, 2006 at 3:56 pm
It’s getting tiresome all the crap between the EU and Microsoft, in the end it’s the European citizens which suffer from this; getting a plain OS without the additional features which you would expect to come with it.
Ben
Oct 1, 2006 at 9:19 am
dont you think this will cause ileagl copys?
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