>> So, Microsoft is now taking marketing lessons from IBM. Planned obsolesence (SP).
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>It's long been their policy to ship when they say they will, unless the product is way too far off. The product actually working doesn't have much to do with release dates at Microsoft. I think they are getting better at making the products work by the ship dates though.

That's been obvious for a long time. However, a SP this soon still looks suspect to major problems.