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Hardware makers put their heads in their hands...
SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft is set to woo the hardware world by holding its hardware engineering conference in Old Taipei, just a few days before Computex kicks off.
Longhorn - the Fata Morgana of software - and which according to VoleCEO Bill Gates will cost as much to develop as the first Man on the Moon mission, was originally intended to be in good beta shape in Q3 of this year.
A whole bevy of hardware folk including AMD, Intel, Nvidia and ATI took Microsoft at its word years back and worked like pit ponies to produce the hardware components that would make Longhorn sing. It was supposed to be the Killer OS that tore up all the old rule books.
All that's happened so far is that it's demonstrated the competence of the hardware people to make complex CPUs, graphics chips and bus designs, and the incompetence of Microsoft to produce practically anything on time.
According to the Taiwan Economic News, Microsoft will show off its plans for Longhorn in Taipei at the end of May. It will show the mobo makers and other hardware folk its plans for drivers, driver install, and what it's doing for 64-bit operating systems.
The newspaper reckons that nearly 80% of Taiwan's hardware community produce products that depend on Vole software. So they do pretty well out of the Vole. But they're always complaining about Microsoft, Intel and any other of the players that make their lives a misery make them a comfortable living.
Source:
The INQ!
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