Primordial Ooze

Wow, that’s quite a lineup of shows. South Park!

Apple releases new stuff to the public at a dizzying pace. Google too. This has to be a huge part of the success of both companies. Consumers like to see new stuff on a regular basis. Or, at least this consumer does ;-)

Over in Microsoft-land, this year has been affectionately named The Year of Release by Microsoftees since almost all teams will be releasing the fruits of the last 5 years labor in and around 2006. Windows Vista, .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 (in Nov ‘05), MS Sql Server, Team Foundation family of products, to name just a few.

Still, should we wait 5 years for an OS update? Consider the release schedule of the Mac OS: 10.0 ("Cheetah", March 24, 2001), 10.1 ("Puma", September 29, 2001), 10.2 ("Jaguar", August 13, 2002), 10.3 ("Panther", October 24, 2003), and 10.4 (“Tiger”, April 29, 2005) (from KernelThread).

Now that’s a release schedule.