Windows features to get early lockdown
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft says it is speeding up the internal development schedule for the next version of Windows -- hoping to improve the quality of its biggest product by giving testers more time to use a full-featured version before the final release.
The company is aiming to integrate all of Windows Vista's planned features into the preliminary version of the program by early next year, said Amitabh Srivastava, corporate vice president in the Windows Core Operating System division.
Such a step is significant because it lets software development teams focus on fixing bugs in established features, rather than making new features.