Redmond (WA) - It remains one of the more bewildering explanations for a major consumer product delay ever given: that some retailers and some manufacturers argued Windows Vista would be too difficult for them to promote and sell during the Christmas season, if it were launched in November rather than October. While few could possibly believe that Microsoft would have fabricated such an excuse out of thin air, the notion that businesses that depend on a company to release a product so that they can sell their own products at Christmastime, would petition that company to delay its release for logistical reasons, remains perplexing.
"I think that [Microsoft] has just successfully stopped PC sales until January," remarked Michael Cherry, lead analyst at Directions on Microsoft, who attended co-president Jim Allchin's analyst's conference on Tuesday, and who heard his historic explanation first-hand.
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Mar 24, 2006, 06:28 AM
