Microsoft delays Visual Studio 7.0

Forget this year. Now its a 2001 ship date for Microsoft's key technology for building Windows-based electronic-commerce applications.

By Antone Gonsalves, PC Week
UPDATED February 15, 2000 10:45 AM PT

Microsoft Corp. has postponed until 2001 the delivery of the next version of its Visual Studio tool suite -- key technology for building and deploying Windows-based electronic-commerce applications.

Delivery of Visual Studio 7.0, scheduled to ship this year, is now "at least a year away" because of development work being done to build support for Windows DNA (Distributed Internet Architecture) 2000 into the suite, said Dave Mendlen, a tools product planner at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), in Redmond, Wash.