Watch out for this, my fellow citizens: Via ZDNet News.com The once-daily shiproom meetings have become twice-a-day events as the product has neared completion. Projected onto a screen is a list of unresolved issues that need to be addressed before Vista can leave. There were about five dozen such issues at a meeting last Wednesday morning. Sven Hallauer, who heads up the process, moved quickly through the list as about 40 programmers, nearly all with a laptop in tow, worked to keep up. At each sticking-point, the person responsible for tracking the issue gave a one-sentence report on where things were. In one case, there was a bug in the Slovenian release of Vista. It was quickly tabled as not pressing, given that Slovenian is not in the first or even second wave of localized versions of Vista. Other reports came in--this software program has a hitch, this particular laptop has trouble waking up from sleep. > Huh? It seems we're getting an added value version.
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