MS Shifts Focus to Vista Deployment

摘要

The long-awaited update to the Windows client OS, Windows Vista, was released to manufacturers, not with a bang but a whimper. For Microsoft, getting Vista out the door was a enormous milestone, critical to the star-crossed OS's expected release to businesses later this month, and then to consumers in January. But with enterprises cautious about compatibility issues, and buzz already shifting to Web-based applications and service-based software, Vista may fall short of the mark set by predecessors Windows 95 and Windows XP.