Why can't I buy Vista?

[Bob]

So I guess the rumours aren't true. Bill didn't have you executed. In any
event just like I predicted 18 months ago Vista would not ship this year.
My new prediction is that it will be delayed again from the new and imporved
Jan. 30th date.

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

As previously stated, if Microsoft is going to continuously change its
dates, it should make a better effort to get them right.

Fact is Vista as its called now has been promised for the last 4-5 years.

For the record a statement to the effect of "Vista will ship next year'
means it will be available to all the target customers unless qualified
otherwise. This means statements like:

http://groups.google.ca/group/micro...neral/msg/aa3b424321dceadd?dmode=source&hl=en

Show that I am right and Microsoft hires losers.

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

Vista sucks and is a rip off. Its the first nail in M$ coffin. I have no
intention of buying.

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

Source works for Microsoft.

Then please state the source.
Your opinion based on how you feel it may come out based on other vague
information is about as far from a factual source as you can get.

Will you be a liar if you are proved wrong yet again?

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

Then why is Microsoft stopping pre-orders? Apart from it would violate the
UCC by allowing sales for an item that it knows will not be ready?

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

The same source that told me Vista will not ship this year. I have no nned
to devulge my source.

 

[Chad Harris]

Bob--

You need better sources than "your source in MSFT" because he/she's wrong
about the "delay again." The delay originally was for good reason and has
been well covered in here and on the web. The delay originally was in large
part because of the need to fix bugs. It also had to do with logistics of
getting packages and DVDs readtm and in fact, getting computer parts into
the OEM comanies from the oursourced cheap labor locales where they are
made. There were also a number of arrangements specific to their sales and
shipping and manufacture OEMs had to make.

The bugs that RTM has will remain until fixed by mods or in some cases
hotfixes, so that's not going to delay the countdown posted on so many web
sites although I find it about as significant as Don Trump's announcement of
the reprieve for Miss USA.

CH

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Wrong Tom.

Would you care to elaborate on what specifically is incorrect in what I
stated?

 

[pvdg42]

Well now you're on to something. Hard to argue with this.

Sock puppet?

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

That is not a source.
That is merely saying where the source works.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
http://www.dts-l.org

 

[Phil]

Bob,

What makes you think it won't be released on January 30th?

Bob is a troll. This thread is not about Vista availability, but about Bob's
need to make a pest out of himself, in the hopes that he will not die of
utter boredom.

-phil

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

Well Tom, to elbaborate, you made a statement that was wrong so I said
"Wrong Tom". It seemed kind of simple to me.

 

[mayor]

It sounds like a vast left wing conspiracy to me.

 

[Robert Armand Hammer]

Amazing this was the same responce when my source told me this 18 months
ago.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

How can Microsoft be responsible for preorders taken by Amazon.com and
others?
Simply the can't.
If anyone would have problems because of preorders, it would be the
organization taking the preorders.

Incorrect assumptions often result in wrong conclusions.

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

So it is no more than hearsay.
And you are correct in that you do not need to divulge the source.
But without identifying the source, there is little credibility.

I believe the source is a figment of your imagination.
I also believe you are unable to prove that belief wrong.

 

[mayor]

You seem to have a uncontrollable need to troll this newsgroup.

--
Leo
If at first you do succeed, try not to look astonished.

 

[Richard Urban]

WOW!

I can't believe all the people falling for this <TROLL>.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Troy McClure]

Bob, you really are a miserable, unintelligent person. i feel bad for you.
especially since the rest of us figured out how to get vista and you cant
because you cant find it at staples! LOL

 

[JIm]

Then, why do you care when its going to be available?.....