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On 22 Mar 1997 12:14:48 GMT, brian@anv.net wrote:

>In <3333bbb8.0@usamrid.isd.net>, chucks@isd.net (Erik Funkenbusch) writes:
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>>>I really cannot think of a single MS product which was on time or early,
>>>please name some
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>>I'll name a few.  Frontpage 97, Publisher 97, Office 95 standard (Access95 was 
>>not done in time for the Win95 ship) (btw, that's 4 applications) Project 4, 
>>Money 97, Visual C++ 5 (it was supposed to ship in july, it shipped in march), 
>>Team Manager 97, Windows CE... I could go on, but i'm waiting for Chris to 
>>provide me with 10 apps that were more than 3 months late...
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>     Okay, now I'll name some that were late.  Frontpage 97, Publisher
>97, Office 95 standard, Project 4, Money 97, Visuall C++ 5, Team 
>Manager 97, Windows CE... I could go on, but it would be meaningless 
>without some references...  ;-)  And I'm waiting for you to provide 
>me with three apps that were on time or early.  Actually, I'd settle
>for a list of three apps, with references.  You needn't send the apps 
>themselves... ;-)

Well, let's see.  Office 95 was done prior to Windows95's launch.
Since Office95's schedule was to ship with Windows95, it was on time.

We were supposed to get Visual C++ 4.3 in march of this year, we got
5.0 instead.  This wasn't just a name change either, the 5.0 product
had been in development for quite some time and the 4.3 product was
supposed to be a minor upgrade to 4.2.  5.0 was originally scheduled
for a June time-frame.

Team Manager97 was announced only weeks before it shipped.  It came
out of the blue, with no press coverage and it was a pretty tight
secret.  While I don't know what the internal schedule was, as far as
public schedules go, it was on time because it shipped on the date
that was announced when TeamManager was announced publicly.