An analysis in the New York Times today recounts the years of effort at Microsoft to overhaul the Windows operating system. The new Vista (once Longhorn) is due at the end of the year. Will it come?

Still, the company is within a month of completing work on new versions of both Windows and Office, having apparently overcome technical hurdles that as recently as August seemed to signal a quagmire.

‘It looked bleak; it was a slog, but in the end this was a technical problem, and there was a turning point,’ said Bharat Shyam, 37, a computer scientist who is director of Windows program management. ‘We’ve confounded the analysts and the press.’

An analysis in the New York Times today recounts the years of effort at Microsoft to overhaul the Windows operating system. The new Vista (once Longhorn) is due at the end of the year. Will it come?
Still, the company is within a month of completing work on new versions of both Windows and Office, having [...]