Microsoft Slows Release Pace, Because...

... because customers don't want it.

Writing in Microsoft Watch, Mary Jo Foley reports:

"...customers and partners actually are advising Microsoft that they can't afford (budget-wise, deployment-time-wise, and training-wise) to keep rolling out new releases of mission-critical apps every couple of years.

"Instead of frequent incremental releases, they'd prefer the occasional, big-kahuna code drop — so long as it doesn't break their existing apps, mind you.

"They want Microsoft to slow down, because it's been moving too fast. And they want to make each release last."