CPP has been closed.

[Travis King]

For those of you that didn't see or read Colin's excerpt:

The Customer Preview Program for Windows Vista has been closed.

Colin couldn't have said it better in the way he used it to describe that
the CPP has been closed...

And now, an excerpt from me and my not so humor! Hee hee hee! (And by the
way, I'm making this up; I've had Vista for two weeks now.)

You were procrastinating to get Windows Vista Beta 2 and you were taking
medications (not intended to offend anyone) that made you fatigued. You
finally decided today would be the day that you would get Vista Beta 2 for
time was now scarce. The night and the darkness were drawing closer, and
you clicked the link to get Vista Beta 2, and in the passing of time as the
link sluggishly loaded, for your enjoyment with your partially shut eyes,
you were shifting your 9 of diamonds to your 10 of spades in FreeCell when
your head began to nod off and then it happened... That is, your head hit
and shattered the dirty, dark glass on your old, rusty, beige CRT. Once you
got your new monitor hooked up, to your surprise that the CPP had closed and
a dissapointment to all, and to all a poor night.

Right.

 

[Chad Harris]

"CPP closed" means little. From now until RTM and RTM the Sequel and RTM
delayed the Sequel II and RTM delayed Son of RTM the sequel Office 07
DVDsand Vista DVDs will be promoted heavily and distributed a number of ways
by MSFT. Right now they can't give away the Feb CTPs fast enough and soon
it will be the same with B2, RC1, RC2 whichever milestone. Also they will
be and are emailing people 60 ways to Chritsmas from Technet to MSDN to
whatever to try their Vista and Office. These are cash cows. They'll do
whatever they can to get them out to move product whether bugs get fixed or
not by RTM.

There will be scores of ways to get those DVDs. MSFT will make them more
prevelant than those AOL pieces of crap you find stuck in your mail that
have been collected and dumped back on AOL.

CH

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

 

[Guest]

Yes, there is a God after all.

 

[Chad Harris]

Those Vista DVD Betas will be hanging from the treetops now to RTM whenever
it is--probably Vista and the Office launch will be close to the same. The
way it's lookin' they could stand to push it back to 2008. Allchin will
either have to push back retirement or leave prior to launch.

CH