PC Review Forums Software Windows Vista Microsoft may be set to release Vista to manufacturers next week

Reply
 
Thread Tools Rate Thread
Old 18-10-2006, 02:13 PM   #1
muckshifter
Captain Crunchie, Retired
Super Moderator
 
muckshifter's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In a Hovel
Posts: 17,435
Send a message via MSN to muckshifter
Trader Rating: (1)
Thumbs up Microsoft may be set to release Vista to manufacturers next week
Quote:
By Benjamin J. Romano

Seattle Times technology reporter

Microsoft could be ready to release Windows Vista to manufacturing as early as next week, a milestone that would signify the end of a protracted development process.

It could also set the company on a course to launch the operating system at the huge International Consumer Electronics Show, where Chairman Bill Gates is scheduled to deliver the opening keynote Jan. 7.

"9 Days Until Vista RTM!!!" read a scrolling electronic reader board in a building on Microsoft's Redmond campus Monday. If the countdown is correct, it would mean Microsoft plans to release Vista to manufacturing (RTM) on Oct. 25, earlier than analysts expected.
Hmmm ... clap! clap?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht...webvista16.html


Wonder how many "uptates" we will have to download ... when we get it in the streets.
__________________
I'm not grouchy by nature, it takes constant effort.



Flickr

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
muckshifter is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-10-2006, 06:05 PM   #2
itsme
Certified Who me?
 
itsme's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 5,708
Trader Rating: (3)
Default
Watch out wait for the "BANG"
__________________
If MS ever make anything that does not suck it will be a> Vacuum cleaner



In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right... something is wrong.
itsme is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-10-2006, 07:56 PM   #3
feckit
Hippie Cruncher
 
feckit's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hippie Land
Posts: 6,764
Trader Rating: (0)
Default
Watchout for the high turnover of New Linux Users
__________________
Registered Microsoft User # 29864751 ... Registered Insane Microsoft User # 19,947,365
For the party of the people go to OMRLP



żnoʎ ʇ,upıp 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ oʇ pɐɥ ʇsnɾ noʎ
feckit is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-10-2006, 08:23 PM   #4
muckshifter
Captain Crunchie, Retired
Super Moderator
 
muckshifter's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: In a Hovel
Posts: 17,435
Send a message via MSN to muckshifter
Trader Rating: (1)
Wink
Quote:
Originally Posted by feckit
Watch out for the high turnover of New Linux Users
No, I don't think so ... I would love to be proved wrong and we may see an influx in users to 'try' Linux, but, ... naw.

MS will insure, via incentives, that 99.9% of new PCs will be bundled with Vista ... manufacturers are already on 'the bandwagon' touting Vista ready this-n-that ... you may even be allowed to buy XP instead. yeah right.

A lot of us enthusiasists who got the chance to try-out Vista have been quite surprised ... it is not what MS had hoped, some of the new technologies have not been implimented and some have even been pulled. But there is enough to make it 'different' from XP and I'm not just talking AeroGlass.

The reason Linux will not "win-over" users is quite simple ... Games!

That, is not the fault of Linux.


__________________
I'm not grouchy by nature, it takes constant effort.



Flickr

Every day I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.
muckshifter is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Archive


Thread Tools
Rate This Thread
Rate This Thread:

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off