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Vista Gets Official Release Dates

SlinkySausage writes "Five years, three months and five days after Windows XP made its debut, Microsoft will usher its next-generation OS onto the stage. Microsoft has set November 30 as the release date for Vista (and Office 2007) to business customers and January 30, 2007 as the date for the official launch to consumers and The World At Large."

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  1. really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    so soon?

  2. I've been running it for years! by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I liked it better when they called it OS X!

    J/K, I'm not gay.

  3. 535? by PHAEDRU5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Surely there's a numbering system where this reads "666".

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    668: Neighbour of the Beast
  4. Christmas Shopping! by NineNine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just in time for Christmas Shopping Season! I'm getting everybody in my family a shiny new End User License Agreement (EULA)! I can't wait for Christmas morning around the tree, when we all get to click "Accept" together! Now, that's what I call quality family time.

    1. Re:Christmas Shopping! by Sparr0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Everyone knows you are supposed to let the cat click Accept, just in case some crazy judge somewhere rules click-through licenses binding some day.

  5. Breaking news by ameyer17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unseasonably cold temperatures predicted for November 30th in Hell.

  6. Someone start a pool by Trikenstein · · Score: 2, Funny

    on when the first patch will be released, and another for SP1

  7. oh my by chowdy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Repent the end is extremely fucking nigh

  8. MOD PARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    An insightful, eloquent post. It is rare that such a visionary, non-conformist poster arrives on this page to share their knowledge in the fashion of the remarkable parent poster. Does our love of free speech not demand that every effort is made to make these brilliant words available to all, so that they can be treasured and committed to memory?

    Slashdot, I urge you to mod UP.

    Think of the children.

  9. Re:better than linux by Jekler · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm going to take a 6 month sabbatical to meditate on your words. There's just something deeply compelling about what you have to say that fills me with a sense of longing for a truer understanding of this wacky universe of ours.

    Thank you fellow scholar. You have changed me.

  10. 5 years, 3 months, 5 days... Yet still... by Beren · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...manage to beat Duke Nukem Forever.

    According to this page, DNF has been in (in)active development for over 8 years...

  11. Re:Do we care? by HiVizDiver · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... who could then probably go out and buy an original Xbox AND a copy of Halo 2 for a hell of a lot less than the cost of upgrading to Vista...

  12. Re:better than linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "at least it's not for fags. you fucking dick sucking dirty ass faggots."

    Dude, you have no sense of direction. Who do you think is on their hands and knees with their pants down when you run Windows? It sure in hell is not Billy Boy. His is on top bitch slapping your ass while yelling, "Who's your daddy!?". Care to rethink your position?

  13. Re:University licenses by kfg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ghost Busters!

    KFG

  14. Re:All in all... by Cctoide · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a consp^[NO CARRIER]

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    "Let's face it, it's a good story. Accuracy would kill it."
  15. Re:aka Corporate version by indifferent+children · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wonder what tricks they have up their sleeve to make life more difficult for users?

    Vista.

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    Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain