Microsoft's PR campaign of self-flagellation continues - with senior executives offering the Wall Street Journal's Rob Guth an account of why Windows Vista will arrive so late and so incomplete. Thanks to the co-operation of Amitabh Srivastava, Brian Valentine, product manager Jim Allchin and even Gates himself - the Longhorn death march is turned into - wouldn't you know? - a triumph. The story's subheads hint at both redemption - "Delay in New Windows Version Drove Giant to Develop Simpler, Flexible Product" - and punishment of the guilty: "Engineers Get Trip to 'Bug Jail'".
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