Disappointing delays from Microsoft, Apple

David Worthington reported today in on SDTimes.com that Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas,” the next version of Microsoft’s developer toolchain, may be delayed until next year. While Microsoft is increasingly non-committal about deadlines (and for good reasons), the expectation had been that Orcas would ship this year. Instead, according to Soma Somasegar, we should expect to see Orcas beta 2 as this year’s big milestone.

Microsoft isn’t the only one to disappoint. As has been widely reported, Apple will not be shipping Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” this summer, at its World Wide Developer Conference. Instead, it will come out later this year, probably in October. The reason, according to Apple, is that resources were diverted from Leopard to the iPhone project.

That’s two big bummers.