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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."
But I liked it better when they called it OS X!
J/K, I'm not gay.
Surely there's a numbering system where this reads "666".
668: Neighbour of the Beast
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.
funnily enough The Wall was released on the same day (albeit in 1979).
Let me say up front I consider myself computer savvy but definitely not a programmer or an expert. My question to everyone is, why is everyone so upset about how long it's taking for Windows Vista to come out?
As far as I can see, Windows XP, with patches, a firewall and Firefox seems to be working fine. I don't feel the need to upgrade as soon as Vista comes out.
They're late on the deadline they originally set for themselves. But I don't see anyone else losing any sleep over it.
Unseasonably cold temperatures predicted for November 30th in Hell.
on when the first patch will be released, and another for SP1
Somehow, I see this going a little like Apple's surprise price reduction for the iPod just before the Zune came along: Microsoft employees scrambling to hack some last-minute changes into their strategy after hearing what Apple is doing.
So imagine MacWorld just before this January 30 Vista release. Jobs has already shown he's not too afraid to take a stab at Redmond. We all expect some surprise Leopard features that speak for themselves, but expect some intentional jabs as well. Maybe even a TV commercial campaign to steal thunder from the TV campaign Microsoft is sure to launch (because they always do).
Personally, I predict the real show-stopper will be a surprise price reduction from Apple. Seriously, if they knocked Leopard *down* to $99 or something, Microsoft would be looking really bad.
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...manage to beat Duke Nukem Forever.
According to this page, DNF has been in (in)active development for over 8 years...
Does anyone have any details on which flavor of Vista will be made available for university licenses?
Mikey
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... 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...
The reason for this is that Microsoft wants to pretend it's shipping Vista in 2006, but no enterprise customers are going to install a brand new OS without months of testing. Microsoft knows this, so they're releasing to those customers, celebrating the faux RTM, then spending the next couple of months actually bugfixing and polishing Vista and "really" releasing next year on January 30.
Don't let them fool you--Vista is being released on January 30th, 2007.
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Toshiba pride themselves in being a "genuine" Windows provider (I work for Toshiba). Although, quite a few laptops have a second partition on the hard drive which is a media player. Basically instead of booting to Windows it boots to this small OS that just plays DVDs so you don't have to wait for Windows to load . . . and guess what OS that might be? Yeah . . . Linux. And, for a very, very, very brief moment, you can see the words "Loading bzImage...".
I'm looking forward to DX10, lower CPU usage (because the UI is run on the GPU), the ability to prioritize I/O (no more 10 fps in games if you move big files around on your computer at the same time), SMB 2.0 (transfers should survive now if the network is disconnected for a moment), virtualized registry (programs run in their own little world = less fudging around with regedit to clean up broken stuff), improved windows APIs (this is mostly for us programmers), improved audio system (ability to mute/adjust sound per application instead), multitasking of GPUs, general bugfixes and improved stability. This was just off the top of my head.
:) are not looking forward to Vista? Aside from the DRM (which will be promptly cracked), that is.
A better question would be why some people (excluding mac & linux users
Actually, it's not that simple.
The days of snagging your works (or a friends works) Volume Licence Key are over.
Vista corporate licencing now has the OS pinging a Corporate Licence server which in turn keeps track of how many clients are out there, it then pings MS which greenlights whether that org is still within licencing terms or not. The actual system is a bit more in depth than that, but essentially that's how it works. If the client can't ping the licence server within 90 days, then the client goes into 'reduced functionality mode'.
So even though I would never condone actually hacking the OS, the only option to the pirates is to patch the OS to bypass the Licence Server ping. But I'm sure MS have forseen that and have all manner of checksum systems in place.
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Would you consider buying a new PC with XP installed after Vista hits the shelves?
Of course not. ISVs etc. get Vista a couple of months early so they can get their inventory built up and tested to go on the shelf the same day as the boxed CD. Enterprise customers get downloads from MSDN without having to wait for loads of discs to be pressed and shipped to them, or full-colour pretty boxes with manuals. Also, if you think Dell have some work to do to ensure their hardware all works with the final release, think about the testing all the software vendors have; just because it was all working with RC2 doesn't mean it still does.
So yes, there are plenty of things that both Microsoft and 3rd parties have to do between putting an ISO up on MSDN and the consumer release date.
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Geforce 8800 GTX's are set to release on the 8th... There were a few places where breifly they were available early... Details on the g80 gpu
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I think they are rushing it out the door. They know Apple will release Leopard on Timee and it would really hurt Microsoft if apple Launches 1st than their grand product. Most Enterprise and Crporate business will not upgrade to Vista for at least another year. They have enough trouble winth windows xp as it is. and by the time Regular users install vista, Leopard will be out rocking since day 1.
I think Apple is more organized when launching a new OS , Microsoft is jas noisy as any makle, loud and with bragging rights but has premature ejaculation problems.
It will take vista at least a year to be where its supposed to be after all the bug fixes it has to undergo.
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Vista.
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In most areas. What's lacking is a DirectX equivalent to woo over the game developers.
Something like SDL? SDL is today a mature and stable library, already used by a lot of games, both commercial (notably the Unreal series) and OSS.
In my experience, games suported both on Windows and Linux run awfully smoother on Linux, for some reason. Load times are also reduced by half.